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Race, slavery, and liberalism in nineteenth-century American literature /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Race, slavery, and liberalism in nineteenth-century American literature // Arthur Riss.
remainder title:	Race, Slavery, & Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Author:	Riss, Arthur,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 238 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	American literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Subject:	United States - Defenses -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485640
ISBN:	9780511485640 (ebook)

Race, slavery, and liberalism in nineteenth-century American literature /
Riss, Arthur,1961-

Race, slavery, and liberalism in nineteenth-century American literature /Race, Slavery, & Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureArthur Riss. - 1 online resource (viii, 238 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;150. - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;165..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780511485640 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

879068
Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
1811-1896--Criticism and interpretation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.Subjects--Topical Terms:

567842
American literature
--History and criticism.--19th centurySubjects--Geographical Terms:

528513
United States
--Defenses

LC Class. No.: PS217.S55 / R57 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9/3552

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