1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465528003321

Autore

Henry Katherine <1956->

Titolo

Liberalism and the culture of security [[electronic resource] ] : the nineteenth-century rhetoric of reform / / Katherine Henry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8173-8510-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/3581

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States

Liberalism in literature

Liberalism - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the rhetoric of protection -- Declarations of independence, claims of injury -- Unmasking slavery: Angelina Grimké's rhetoric of exposure -- Melting into speech : Frances E. W. Harper and the citizenship of the heart -- The eloquent girl : liberal publicity and unprotected privacy in Henry James's The Bostonians.

Sommario/riassunto

Figures of protection and security are everywhere in American public discourse, from the protection of privacy or civil liberties to the protection of marriage or the unborn, and from social security to homeland security. Liberalism and the Culture of Security traces a crucial paradox in historical and contemporary notions of citizenship: in a liberal democratic culture that imagines its citizens as self-reliant, autonomous, and inviolable, the truth is that claims for citizenship-particularly for marginalized groups such as women and slaves-have just as often been made in



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910144260203321

Titolo

Advances in chemical physics . Volume XLIV / / edited by I. Prigogine, University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium and University of Texas, Austin Texas and Stuart A. Rice, Department of Chemistry and the James Franck Institute, the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : John Wiley & Sons, , [1980]

©1980

ISBN

1-282-34698-9

9786612346989

0-470-14263-4

0-470-14309-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (686 p.)

Collana

Advances in chemical physics ; ; 44

Disciplina

541

541.3

541.305

541/.08

Soggetti

Chemistry, Physical and theoretical

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Advances in CHEMICAL PHYSICS; CONTENTS; MOLECULAR PROPERTIES OBSERVED AND COMPUTED; GENERALIZED LANGEVIN EQUATIONS AND MANY-BODY PROBLEMS IN CHEMICAL DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES OF ROTOTRANSLATIONAL CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; ON A THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION OF SOLVATED ELECTRONS; NATURAL CHIROPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY: THEORY AND COMPUTATIONS; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The Advances in Chemical Physics series provides the chemical physics and physical chemistry fields with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Filled with cutting-edge research reported in a cohesive manner not found elsewhere in the literature, each volume of the Advances in Chemical



Physics series serves as the perfect supplement to any advanced graduate class devoted to the study of chemical physics.