02967nam 2200625 a 450 991046552800332120200520144314.00-8173-8510-X(CKB)2560000000079486(EBL)835638(OCoLC)772459207(SSID)ssj0000591590(PQKBManifestationID)11368323(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000591590(PQKBWorkID)10696782(PQKB)10347215(MiAaPQ)EBC835638(MdBmJHUP)muse9340(Au-PeEL)EBL835638(CaPaEBR)ebr10527729(EXLCZ)99256000000007948620100618d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLiberalism and the culture of security[electronic resource] the nineteenth-century rhetoric of reform /Katherine HenryTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20111 online resource (232 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1722-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. 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 American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryRhetoricPolitical aspectsUnited StatesLiberalism in literatureLiberalismUnited StatesHistory19th centuryElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryRhetoricPolitical aspectsLiberalism in literature.LiberalismHistory810.9/3581Henry Katherine1956-1028053MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465528003321Liberalism and the culture of security2443864UNINA