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  3. Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2009
Print publication year:
2006
Online ISBN:
9780511485640
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485640
Series:
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (150)
Subjects:
Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory, History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
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Book description

Moving boldly between literary analysis and political theory, contemporary and antebellum US culture, Arthur Riss invites readers to rethink prevailing accounts of the relationship between slavery, liberalism, and literary representation. Situating Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass at the center of antebellum debates over the person-hood of the slave, this 2006 book examines how a nation dedicated to the proposition that 'all men are created equal' formulates arguments both for and against race-based slavery. This revisionary argument promises to be unsettling for literary critics, political philosophers, historians of US slavery, as well as those interested in the link between literature and human rights.

Reviews

Review of the hardback:'Riss is a deft, polished writer and a gifted literary scholar.'

Source: Literature & History

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