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Author Crane, Gregg D. (Gregg David)

Title Race, citizenship, and law in American literature / by Gregg D. Crane.

Publication Info. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 299 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 128
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 128.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-292) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Higher law in the 1850s -- The look of higher law: Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery fiction -- Cosmopolitan constitutionalism: Emerson and Douglass -- The positivist alternative -- Charles Chesnutt and Moorfield Storey: citizenship and the flux of contract.
Summary In this broad ranging study, Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity, race and justice in American law and literature. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, this is a remarkably original book, that will revise the relationship between Race and Nationalism in American literature.
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Subject Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
American literature -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Law in literature.
Law in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Citizenship in literature.
Citizenship in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Racism in literature.
Racism in literature.
Law and literature.
Law and literature.
Race in literature.
Race in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Subject Slavery.
Slavery.
Other Form: Print version: Crane, Gregg David. Race, citizenship, and law in American literature. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521806844 0521010934 (DLC) 2001037853 (OCoLC)47625306
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