Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureCambridge University Press, 17 Αυγ 2006 Moving boldly between literary analysis and political theory, contemporary and antebellum US culture, Arthur Riss invites readers to rethink prevailing accounts of the relationship between slavery, liberalism, and literary representation. Situating Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass at the center of antebellum debates over the person-hood of the slave, this 2006 book examines how a nation dedicated to the proposition that 'all men are created equal' formulates arguments both for and against race-based slavery. This revisionary argument promises to be unsettling for literary critics, political philosophers, historians of US slavery, as well as those interested in the link between literature and human rights. |
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Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Arthur Riss Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2009 |
Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Arthur Riss Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2006 |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
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Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 32 - For one, I am opposed to negro citizenship in any and every form. I believe this government was made on the white basis. I believe it was made by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever...
Σελίδα 27 - SLAVERY is so vile and miserable an estate of man, and so directly opposite to the generous temper and courage of our nation, that it is hardly to be* conceived that an " Englishman," much less a " gentleman,