02927nam 2200625 a 450 991082721370332120240416173618.00-8018-8931-6(CKB)1000000000482250(OCoLC)213306078(CaPaEBR)ebrary10188517(SSID)ssj0000267359(PQKBManifestationID)11217139(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267359(PQKBWorkID)10334924(PQKB)10483586(MiAaPQ)EBC3318316(MdBmJHUP)muse2560(Au-PeEL)EBL3318316(CaPaEBR)ebr10188517(OCoLC)923193424(EXLCZ)99100000000048225020051103d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrVictory of law the Fourteenth amendment, the Civil War, and American literature, 1852-1867 /Deak Nabers1st ed.Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press20061 online resource (254 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8018-8350-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-234) and index.Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Victory of LAW: Melville and Reconstruction -- 2 Shadows of Law: Somerset and the Literature of Abolition -- 3 Constitutional Disobedience: Thoreau, Sumner, and the Transcendental Law of the 1850s -- 4 Legal Sentences: Hawthorne's Sovereign Performatives and Hermeneutics of Freedom -- 5 John Bingham's Poetic Constitution -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.This interdisciplinary study sheds light on the transformative significance of emerging legalist and constitutionalist forms of antislavery thinking on the literature of the 1850s and 1860s and the growing centrality of aesthetic considerations to antebellum American legal theory and practice--the historical terms in which a distinctively American cultural identity was conceived.American literature19th centuryPolitical aspectsAntislavery movements in literatureAntislavery movementsUnited StatesHistoryRhetoricPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government19th centuryAmerican literaturePolitical aspects.Antislavery movements in literature.Antislavery movementsHistory.RhetoricPolitical aspectsHistory810.9/358097309034Nabers Deak1608427MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827213703321Victory of law3935156UNINA