Temperance and Cosmopolitanism - African American Reformers in the Atlantic World

A study of select nineteenth-century African American authors and reformers who mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom.

About the author

Carole Lynn Stewart is Professor of English Language and Literature at Brock University and the author of Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

Summary

A study of select nineteenth-century African American authors and reformers who mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom.

Product details

• Authors: Carole Lynn Stewart, Carole Lynn (Associate Professor Stewart, Stewart Carole Lynn
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2021
• EAN: 9780271090238
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09023-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 152 mm
• Weight: 404 g
• Series: Africana Religions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; USA, Ethnic Studies, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Black & Asian Studies, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Relating to African American / Black American people