Victory of law : the Fourteenth amendment, the Civil War, and American literature, 1852-1867 / / Deak Nabers

• Autore: Nabers Deak
• Pubblicazione: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/358097309034
• Soggetto topico: American literature - 19th century - Political aspects; Antislavery movements in literature; Antislavery movements - United States - History; Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 19th century
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-234) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Victory of law
• ISBN: 0-8018-8931-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827213703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II