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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792130503321

Autore

Husband J

Titolo

Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature [[electronic resource] ] : Incendiary Pictures / / by J. Husband

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

1-282-90874-X

9786612908743

0-230-10521-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Disciplina

326/.80973

810.9358

Soggetti

Literature   

America—Literatures

Literature, Modern—19th century

Literature—Philosophy

African Americans

Social justice

Human rights

Postcolonial/World Literature

North American Literature

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Literary Theory

African American Culture

Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights

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

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1 Central Feminist Abolitionists and the Wage Labor System; 1 The Emergence of the Family Protection Campaign and Antislavery Sentimentality; 2 Anticipating Progressive Era Reformers: Lydia Maria Child and the Mothering State; Part 2 Adaptations of the Antislavery Family Protection Campaign; 3 Marketplace Politics in The Scarlet



Letter; 4 The Invisible Hand of the Marketplace: E.D.E.N. Southworth's Southern Reforms; 5 ""The White Slave of the North"": Lowell Mill Women and the Evolution of ""Free Labor""

Part 3 The End of Antislavery Sentimentality6 Frederick Douglass's Post-Civil War Performance of Masculinity; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

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.