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1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The transcendental politics of Theodore Parker -- Frederick Douglass, perfectionist self-help, and a constitution for the ages -- Harriet Beecher Stowe and the divided heart of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- African dreams, American realities : Martin Robison Delany and the emigration question -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson's war on slavery -- Conclusion: Emancipation Day, 1863 -- Epilogue: The reconstruction of Romantic reform. |
| Summary |
"On the cusp of the American Civil War, a new generation of reformers, including Theodore Parker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Robison Delany and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, took the lead in the antislavery struggle. Frustrated by political defeats, a more aggressive slave power, and the inability of early abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison to rid the nation of slavery, the New Romantics crafted fresh, often more combative, approaches to the peculiar institution. Contrary to what many scholars have argued, however, they did not reject Romantic reform in the process. Instead, the New Romantics roamed widely through Romantic modes of thought, embracing not only the immediatism and perfectionism pioneered by Garrisonians but also new motifs and doctrines, including sentimentalism, self-culture, martial heroism, Romantic racialism, and Manifest Destiny. This book tells the story of how antebellum America's most important intellectual current, Romanticism, shaped the coming and course of the nation's bloodiest--and most revolutionary--conflict"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Antislavery movements. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography.
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Abolitionists. |
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Biographies.
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Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
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Social reformers. |
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Romanticism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Romanticism. |
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Romanticism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Social aspects. |
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Slavery in literature.
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Slavery in literature. |
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Antislavery movements in literature.
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Antislavery movements in literature. |
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Intellectual life. |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861.
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Politics and government. |
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1815-1861 |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kytle, Ethan J. Romantic reformers and the antislavery struggle in the Civil War era 9781107074590 (DLC) 2014010079 (OCoLC)875554498 |
| ISBN |
9781316073834 (electronic book) |
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1316073831 (electronic book) |
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9781316078570 (electronic book) |
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1316078574 (electronic book) |
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9781107074590 (hardback) |
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1107074592 (hardback) |
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9781107426986 (paperback) |
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1107426987 (paperback) |
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