03963nam 2200661Ia 450 991078492740332120230207213440.01-282-71070-297866127107040-226-29415-310.7208/9780226294155(CKB)2670000000035243(EBL)570551(OCoLC)657077420(SSID)ssj0000430815(PQKBManifestationID)12170022(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000430815(PQKBWorkID)10456660(PQKB)10150405(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117453(MiAaPQ)EBC570551(DE-B1597)523853(DE-B1597)9780226294155(EXLCZ)99267000000003524320091117d2010 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrThe war on words[electronic resource] slavery, race, and free speech in American literature /Michael T. GilmoreChicago University of Chicago Pressc20101 online resource (342 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-29413-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Content --Acknowledgments --Introduction --Part I: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech --Part II: Antebellum --Part III: Antebellum/Postbellum --Intertext: "Bartleby, the Scrivener" --Part IV: Postbellum --Timeline --Notes --IndexHow 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.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismSlavery in literatureRace in literatureStyle, LiterarySocial aspectsUnited Statesslavery, race, literature, frederick douglass, stephen crane, silence, antebellum, disunion, america, reconciliation, utterance, henry james, thoreau, civil disobedience, bostonians, freedom, expression, rhetoric, speaking, voice, lynching, thomas dixon, speech, feminism, margaret fuller, cooper union, lincoln, hawthorne, dissent, whitman, melville, stowe, twain, chestnutt, racism, indian question, jackson, tourgee, bartleby, billy budd, politics, history.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Slavery in literature.Race in literature.Style, LiterarySocial aspects810.9/3552Gilmore Michael T325047MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784927403321The war on words3672571UNINA