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1 online resource (xi, 299 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 128
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 128.
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. |
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Law in literature.
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Law in literature. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Citizenship in literature.
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Citizenship in literature. |
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Slavery in literature.
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Slavery in literature. |
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Racism in literature.
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Racism in literature. |
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Law and literature.
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Law and literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Subject |
Slavery.
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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 |
ISBN |
0511041853 (electronic book) |
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9780511041853 (electronic book) |
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0521806844 (hardback) |
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9780521806848 (hardback) |
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0521010934 (paperback) |
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9780521010931 (paperback) |
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051111981X (electronic book) |
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9780511119811 (electronic book) |
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9780511485473 (electronic book) |
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0511485476 (electronic book) |
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9780511044342 (electronic book) |
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0511044348 (electronic book) |
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0511156626 |
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9780511156625 |
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