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Author Bolton, Linda, 1955-

Title Facing the other : ethical disruption and the American mind / Linda Bolton.

Publication Info. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2004]
©2004

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 Moore Stacks  E302.1 .B65 2004    Available  ---
Description xi, 209 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Horizons in theory and American culture
Horizons in theory and American culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-204) and index.
Contents Towards confronting "the hatred by the other human" -- Facing alterity : the ethics of conversion in Crevecoeur's Letters from an American farmer -- In the name of "justice and humanity" : Thomas Paine's ethical envisionings of the American Republic -- Standing in the "field of freedom" : Thomas Jefferson and the reverberations of that declaratory promise -- Fugitive poseurs : the native eloquence of Frederick Douglass and Sarah Winnemucca -- In the presence of the great American criminal : John Brown's triumphant failure at Harpers Ferry.
Subject United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Sources.
United States.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1775-1783
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865 -- Sources.
Chronological Term 1783-1865
Subject Ethics -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Ethics.
History.
Political ethics -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Political ethics.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865 -- Sources.
Intellectual life.
Criticism, Textual.
Criticism, Textual.
Other (Philosophy)
Other (Philosophy)
Ethics in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Liberty in literature.
Liberty in literature.
Justice in literature.
Justice in literature.
ISBN 0807129402 alkaline paper