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Liberalism and the culture of security [[electronic resource] ] : the nineteenth-century rhetoric of reform / / Katherine Henry



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Autore: Henry Katherine <1956-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Liberalism and the culture of security [[electronic resource] ] : the nineteenth-century rhetoric of reform / / Katherine Henry Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/3581
Soggetto topico: American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century
Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States
Liberalism in literature
Liberalism - United States - History - 19th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: the rhetoric of protection -- Declarations of independence, claims of injury -- Unmasking slavery: Angelina Grimké's rhetoric of exposure -- Melting into speech : Frances E. W. Harper and the citizenship of the heart -- The eloquent girl : liberal publicity and unprotected privacy in Henry James's The Bostonians.
Sommario/riassunto: Figures of protection and security are everywhere in American public discourse, from the protection of privacy or civil liberties to the protection of marriage or the unborn, and from social security to homeland security. Liberalism and the Culture of Security traces a crucial paradox in historical and contemporary notions of citizenship: in a liberal democratic culture that imagines its citizens as self-reliant, autonomous, and inviolable, the truth is that claims for citizenship-particularly for marginalized groups such as women and slaves-have just as often been made in
Titolo autorizzato: Liberalism and the culture of security  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8173-8510-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910791965803321
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