Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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 commonsense
- 4 Melville and the state of war
- 5 Toward a transcendental politics: Emerson's second thoughts
- Epilogue: An unfinished and not unhappy ending
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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 commonsense
- 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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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005