Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830-1860

Klappentext Lee demonstrates how Melville, Emerson and others tried to find rational solutions to the slavery conflict. Zusammenfassung Maurice Lee! in this 2005 book! demonstrates how the slavery crisis became a crisis of philosophy. Poe! Stowe! Douglass! Melville! and Emerson tried - and failed - to find rational solutions to the slavery conflict. Drawing on antebellum moral philosophy! political theory! and metaphysics! Lee brings a different perspective to the literature of slavery. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Absolute Poe; 2. 'Lord, it's so hard to be good': affect and agency in Stowe; 3. Taking care of the philosophy: Douglass's common sense; 4. Melville and the state of war; 5. Toward a transcendental politics: Emerson's second thoughts; Epilogue: an unfinished and not unhappy ending; Index.

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• Authors: Maurice S. Lee, Maurice S. (University of Missouri Lee
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521152686
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15268-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies