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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792292303321

Autore

Grant David <1959 December 6->

Titolo

Political antislavery discourse and American literature of the 1850s [[electronic resource] /] / David Grant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark, : University of Delaware Press

Lanham, Maryland, : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2012

ISBN

1-280-67001-0

1-61149-384-6

9786613646941

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 225 pages)

Disciplina

810.9/358736

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Slavery in literature

Antislavery movements in literature

Republicanism in literature

United States Politics and government 1849-1861

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

American literature and the political antislavery call for Northern agency -- Stowe's Dred and the narrative logic of slavery's extension -- Sovereignty and the politics of analogy in Whittier's "The panorama" -- Self-abasement and Republican insecurity : Willis's Paul Fane in its political context -- Ophelia and the economy of passion in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- "Our nation's hope is she" : the cult of Jessie Fremont in the Republican campaign poetry of 1856 -- "Fall behind me, States!" : reexamining the politics of Union in Leaves of grass