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Race Slavery And Liberalism In Nineteenth Century American Literature
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Book Synopsis Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by : Arthur Riss
Download or read book Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature written by Arthur Riss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature by : J. Husband
Download or read book Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature written by J. Husband and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of "free labor" in mid-nineteenth-century America. Husband shows how the images of families split apart by slavery, circulated primarily by women leaders, proved to be the most powerful weapon in the antislavery cultural campaign and ultimately turned the nation against slavery. She also reveals the ways in which the sentimental narratives and icons that constituted the "family protection campaign" powerfully influenced Americans sense of the role of government, gender, and race in industrializing America. Chapters examine the writings of ardent abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, non-activist sympathizers, and those actively hostile to but deeply immersed in antislavery activism including Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Book Synopsis Frederick Douglass by : Cassie Mayer
Download or read book Frederick Douglass written by Cassie Mayer and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title looks at Frederick Douglass, from his early life, through the work that made him famous.
Book Synopsis Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature by : J. Husband
Download or read book Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature written by J. Husband and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-11-07 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of 'free labour' in mid-nineteenth-century America.
Book Synopsis Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century by : Nazera Sadiq Wright
Download or read book Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century written by Nazera Sadiq Wright and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the black girl. Nazera Sadiq Wright uses heavy archival research on a wide range of texts about African American girls to explore this understudied phenomenon. As Wright shows, the figure of the black girl in African American literature provided a powerful avenue for exploring issues like domesticity, femininity, and proper conduct. The characters' actions, however fictional, became a rubric for African American citizenship and racial progress. At the same time, their seeming dependence and insignificance allegorized the unjust treatment of African Americans. Wright reveals fascinating girls who, possessed of a premature knowing and wisdom beyond their years, projected a courage and resiliency that made them exemplary representations of the project of racial advance and citizenship.
Download or read book American Dark Age written by Keidrick Roy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Dark Age contends that life in early and antebellum America for Black people resembles what Keidrick Roy calls "racial feudalism," a race-based system of social stratification in the U.S. that operates as an extension of medieval ideas and customs. Accordingly, this project does not read Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence against the backdrop of the European and American Enlightenment traditions, as virtually all modern scholars have done. Instead, it seeks to understand Jefferson as a product of the same feudal frameworks he claimed to supersede. Jefferson's attachment to feudalism is most evident in his approbation of two new aristocracies during the Age of Enlightenment: (1) the aristocracy of the mind, which he calls a "natural aristocracy," and (2) the aristocracy of the skin, what abolitionist Frederick Douglass later dubs, with emphasis, "skin-aristocracy." After tracing the lineaments of racial feudalism, Roy shows how four African Americans-James McCune Smith, William Wells Brown, Francis Harper, and Harriet Jacobs-present distinctive but interconnected visions for overcoming its effects in the mid-nineteenth century by upending the antecedent feudal architecture of American liberalism, a broad tradition whose unifying strands otherwise emphasize individual liberties, egalitarianism, moral universalism, and meliorism (the belief in the possibility for social and political progress). Ultimately, Roy argues, McCune Smith, Wells Brown, Harper, and Jacobs maintained a spirit of cautious optimism against the retrogressive forces of plantation slavery in the South and what McCune Smith calls "caste-slavery in the North." Their quest to destroy racial feudalism and reformulate American liberalism established the conditions for initiating new ways of being "American.""--
Book Synopsis Frederick Douglass by : Peter C. Myers
Download or read book Frederick Douglass written by Peter C. Myers and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual portrait of the iconic 19th-century slave and abolitionist who took the lead in applying the Founders' doctrine of natural rights to the plight of African Americans. Reveals how Douglass's vision still guides contemporary liberalism.
Book Synopsis Slavery and Sentiment by : Christine Levecq
Download or read book Slavery and Sentiment written by Christine Levecq and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates the political dimensions of American and British antislavery texts written by blacks
Book Synopsis Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos by : Owen Clayton
Download or read book Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos written by Owen Clayton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most enduring version of the hobo that has come down from the so-called 'Golden Age of Tramping' (1890s to 1940s) is an American cultural icon, signifying freedom from restraint and rebellion to the established order while reinforcing conservative messages about American exceptionalism, individualism, race, and gender. Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos shows that this 'pioneer hobo' image is a misrepresentation by looking at works created by transient artists and thinkers, including travel literature, fiction, memoir, early feminist writing, poetry, sociology, political journalism, satire, and music. This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around 'the hobo' and 'the tramp'. It is the first analysis to frame transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts to travel without money. This book provide new ways for scholars to think about the activity and representation of US transiency.
Book Synopsis Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830-1860 by : Maurice S. Lee
Download or read book Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830-1860 written by Maurice S. Lee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee demonstrates how Melville, Emerson and others tried to find rational solutions to the slavery conflict.
Book Synopsis Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature by : Jolene Hubbs
Download or read book Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature written by Jolene Hubbs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how representations of poor white southerners helped shape middle-class identity and major American literary movements and genres.
Book Synopsis Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction by : Sarah E. Chinn
Download or read book Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction written by Sarah E. Chinn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during the Civil War and Reconstruction to argue for full Black citizenship and against a national reconciliation that reimposed white supremacy. It gives readers a new way to think about the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Book Synopsis Wild Abandon by : Alexander Menrisky
Download or read book Wild Abandon written by Alexander Menrisky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American wilderness narrative, which divides nature from culture, has remained remarkably persistent despite the rise of ecological science, which emphasizes interconnection between these spheres. Wild Abandon considers how ecology's interaction with radical politics of authenticity in the twentieth century has kept that narrative alive in altered form. As ecology gained political momentum in the 1960s and 1970s, many environmentalists combined it with ideas borrowed from psychoanalysis and a variety of identity-based social movements. The result was an identity politics of ecology that framed ecology itself as an authentic identity position repressed by cultural forms, including social differences and even selfhood. Through readings of texts by Edward Abbey, Simon Ortiz, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Jon Krakauer, among others, Alexander Menrisky argues that writers have both dramatized and critiqued this tendency, in the process undermining the concept of authenticity altogether and granting insight into alternative histories of identity and environment.
Book Synopsis Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century by : Michael Borgstrom
Download or read book Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century written by Michael Borgstrom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century: Curious Attachments addresses a longstanding question in literary and cultural studies: how can a case be made for the ongoing value of the humanities without an articulation of that field's social effects? In response, this book examines how readers "befriend" works of literature, overtures that are based in a curiosity about the world that help those readers to appreciate the world anew. As an instance of this dynamic, it examines how the contemporary social interest in queerness can be contextualized through encounters with texts produced during an earlier era of queer flux: the U.S. nineteenth century. The book offers first-hand accounts of such meetings, weaving within its analysis reports on readers' engagements with literature and the consequences of those connections. It frames such dynamics as central to a new politics, or to finding a vocabulary for a familiar politics that has not received its due.
Book Synopsis A History of American Literature by : Richard Gray
Download or read book A History of American Literature written by Richard Gray and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available today Covers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller, and science fiction Explores the plural character of American literature, including the contributions made by African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American writers Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past?thirty years Situates American literature in the contexts of American history, politics and society Offers an invaluable introduction to American literature for students at all levels, academic and general readers
Book Synopsis Melville and the Idea of Blackness by : Christopher Freeburg
Download or read book Melville and the Idea of Blackness written by Christopher Freeburg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freeburg analyzes how Melville grapples with realities of racial difference in nineteenth-century America by examining 'blackness' in Melville's fiction.
Book Synopsis Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America by : Stacey Margolis
Download or read book Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America written by Stacey Margolis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America examines how mass democracy was understood before public opinion could be measured by polls. It argues that fiction, in its freedom to represent what resists representation, develops the most groundbreaking theories of the democratic public. These literary accounts of democracy focus less on overt pubic action than the profound effects of everyday social encounters. This book thus departs from recent scholarship, which emphasizes the responsibilities of citizenship and the achievements of oppositional social movements. It demonstrates how novels and stories by Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Fanny Fern, Harriet Jacobs and James Fenimore Cooper attempt to understand a public organized not only by explicitly political discourse, but by informal and disorganized social networks.
