War on Words - Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature

Informationen zum Autor Michael T. Gilmore is the Paul Prosswimmer Professor of American Literature at Brandeis University. Klappentext 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. "Michael T. Gillmore's execution of his thesis is vigorous, enlightening, and arguable in a positive sense." (American Literature)" Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael T. Gilmore, Gilmore Michael T.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.12.2013
• EAN: 9780226101699
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10169-9
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA