LEADER 03963nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910784927403321 005 20230207213440.0 010 $a1-282-71070-2 010 $a9786612710704 010 $a0-226-29415-3 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226294155 035 $a(CKB)2670000000035243 035 $a(EBL)570551 035 $a(OCoLC)657077420 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000430815 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12170022 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000430815 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10456660 035 $a(PQKB)10150405 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117453 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC570551 035 $a(DE-B1597)523853 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226294155 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000035243 100 $a20091117d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe war on words$b[electronic resource] $eslavery, race, and free speech in American literature /$fMichael T. Gilmore 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (342 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-29413-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContent --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tPart I: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech --$tPart II: Antebellum --$tPart III: Antebellum/Postbellum --$tIntertext: "Bartleby, the Scrivener" --$tPart IV: Postbellum --$tTimeline --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aHow 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSlavery in literature 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aStyle, Literary$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 610 $aslavery, race, literature, frederick douglass, stephen crane, silence, antebellum, disunion, america, reconciliation, utterance, henry james, thoreau, civil disobedience, bostonians, freedom, expression, rhetoric, speaking, voice, lynching, thomas dixon, speech, feminism, margaret fuller, cooper union, lincoln, hawthorne, dissent, whitman, melville, stowe, twain, chestnutt, racism, indian question, jackson, tourgee, bartleby, billy budd, politics, history. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSlavery in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 615 0$aStyle, Literary$xSocial aspects 676 $a810.9/3552 700 $aGilmore$b Michael T$0325047 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784927403321 996 $aThe war on words$93672571 997 $aUNINA