Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature write by J. Husband. This book was released on 2010-02-01. Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature write by J. Husband. This book was released on 2015-11-07. Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of 'free labour' in mid-nineteenth-century America.
Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature, 1830-1865
Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature, 1830-1865 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature, 1830-1865 write by Deborah C. De Rosa. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature, 1830-1865 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Deborah C. De Rosa examines the multifaceted nature of domestic abolitionism, a discourse that nineteenth-century women created to voice their political sentiments when cultural imperatives demanded their silence. For nineteenth-century women struggling to find an abolitionist voice while maintaining the codes of gender and respectability, writing children's literature was an acceptable strategy to counteract the opposition. By seizing the opportunity to write abolitionist juvenile literature, De Rosa argues, domestic abolitionists were able to enter the public arena while simultaneously maintaining their identities as exemplary mother-educators and preserving their claims to "femininity." Using close textual analyses of archival materials, De Rosa examines the convergence of discourses about slavery, gender, and children in juvenile literature from 1830 to 1865, filling an important gap in our understanding of women's literary productions about race and gender, as well as our understanding of nineteenth-century American literature more generally.
The War on Words
The War on Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The War on Words write by Michael T. Gilmore. This book was released on 2010-08-15. The War on Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did slavery and race impact American literature in the nineteenth century? In this ambitious book, Michael T. Gilmore argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Crane wrestled with the demands for silence and circumspection that accompanied the antebellum fear of disunion and the postwar reconciliation between the North and South. Proposing a radical new interpretation of nineteenth-century American literature, The War on Words examines struggles over permissible and impermissible utterance in works ranging from Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” to Henry James’s The Bostonians. Combining historical knowledge with groundbreaking readings of some of the classic texts of the American past, The War on Words places Lincoln’s Cooper Union address in the same constellation as Margaret Fuller’s feminism and Thomas Dixon’s defense of lynching. Arguing that slavery and race exerted coercive pressure on freedom of expression, Gilmore offers here a transformative study that alters our understanding of nineteenth-century literary culture and its fraught engagement with the right to speak.
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History write by Juliana Chow. This book was released on 2021-11-18. Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.
