UID:
almahu_9947414395302882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 299 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511485473 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 128
Content:
In this broad ranging and powerful study, Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity, race and justice in American law and literature. Crane recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law into line with the moral consensus that slavery and racial oppression were evil. By documenting an actual historical interaction central both to American literature and American constitutional law, Crane reveals the influence of literature on the constitutional discourse of citizenship. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Frederick Douglass, and a whole range of novelists, poets, philosophers, politicians, lawyers and judges, this is a remarkable book, that will revise the relationship between race and nationalism in American literature.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Higher law in the 1850s -- The look of higher law: Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery fiction -- Cosmopolitan constitutionalism: Emerson and Douglass -- The positivist alternative -- Charles Chesnutt and Moorfield Storey: citizenship and the flux of contract.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521806848
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485473
