LEADER 02927nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910827213703321 005 20240416173618.0 010 $a0-8018-8931-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000482250 035 $a(OCoLC)213306078 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10188517 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000267359 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11217139 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267359 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10334924 035 $a(PQKB)10483586 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3318316 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2560 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3318316 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10188517 035 $a(OCoLC)923193424 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000482250 100 $a20051103d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aVictory of law $ethe Fourteenth amendment, the Civil War, and American literature, 1852-1867 /$fDeak Nabers 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBaltimore $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (254 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8018-8350-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-234) and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xPolitical aspects 606 $aAntislavery movements in literature 606 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y19th century 615 0$aAmerican literature$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aAntislavery movements in literature. 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory. 615 0$aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 676 $a810.9/358097309034 700 $aNabers$b Deak$01608427 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827213703321 996 $aVictory of law$93935156 997 $aUNINA