Temperance and Cosmopolitanism : African American Reformers in the Atlantic World /

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"A study of select nineteenth-century African American authors and reformers who mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom"--Provided by publisher

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stewart, Carole Lynn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Temperance in literature.
Cosmopolitanism in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
American literature.
African American social reformers.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Reformateurs sociaux noirs americains > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Temperance dans la litterature.
Cosmopolitisme dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
African American social reformers > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : slave travels and the beginnings of a temperate cosmopolitanism
  • William Wells Brown and Martin Delany : civil and geographic spaces of temperate cosmopolitanism
  • Brown's temperate cosmopolitan "home" : Creole civilization and temperate manners
  • George Moses Horton's freedom : a temperate republicanism and a critical cosmopolitanism
  • Frances E.W. Harper's Black cosmopolitan Creoles : a temperate transnationalism
  • "The quintessence of sanctifying grace" : Amanda Smith's religious experience, freedom, and a temperate cosmopolitanism
  • Epilogue : tempering and conjuring the roots of cosmopolitan recovery.

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