Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth Century American Literatur

Informationen zum Autor Arthur Riss is Assistant Professor of English at Salem State College! Massachusetts. Klappentext This 2006 book raises controversial questions about the intersections between race, literature and American intellectual history. Zusammenfassung Moving boldly between literary analysis and political theory! contemporary and antebellum US culture! in this 2006 book Arthur Riss invites readers to rethink prevailing accounts of the relationship between slavery! liberalism! and literary representation. This revisionary argument promises to be unsettling for literary critics! political philosophers! and historians of US slavery. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the figure a 'person'makes; 1. Slaves and persons; 2. Family values and racial essentialism in Uncle Tom's Cabin; 3. Eva's hair and the sentiments of race; 4. A is for anything: US liberalism and the making of The Scarlet Letter; 5. The art of discrimination: The Marble Faun, 'Chiefly About War Matters', and the aesthetics of anti-black racism; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Riss Arthur, Arthur Riss, Arthur (Salem State College Riss
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.2009
• EAN: 9780521120203
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12020-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies