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Race, slavery, and liberalism in nineteenth-century American literature
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Race, slavery, and liberalism in nineteenth-century American literature / Arthur Riss.
ISBN
0521856744
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Physical Description
viii, 238 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 17, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-234) and index.
Contents
Introduction : the figure a "person" makes : on the aesthetics of liberalism
Slaves and persons
Family values and racial essentialism in Uncle Tom's cabin
Eva's hair and the sentiments of race
A is for anything : US liberalism and the making of The scarlet letter
The art of discrimination : The marble faun, "Chiefly about war matters," and the aesthetics of anti-Black racism
Freedom, ethics, and the necessity of persons : Frederick Douglass and the scene of resistance.
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