Oracle and the Curse - A Poetics of Justice From the Revolution to the Civil War

Informationen zum Autor Caleb Smith is Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Zusammenfassung Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscience in antebellum America’s court of public opinion and shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature.

Product details

• Authors: Caleb Smith, Smith Caleb
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2013
• EAN: 9780674073081
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07308-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Legal History, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Legal History, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas