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Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature
By Gregg D. Crane
309 pages
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- Cambridge University Press
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- Cambridge, England
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Synopsis
Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity and race and justice within American law and literature in this study. He recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law in accord with the moral consensus that slavery and racial oppression are evil. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, and a range of novelists, poets, philosophers, politicians, lawyers and judges, this original book will revise the relationship between race ...
Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity and race and justice within American law and literature in this study. He recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law in accord with the moral consensus that slavery and racial oppression are evil. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, and a range of novelists, poets, philosophers, politicians, lawyers and judges, this original book will revise the relationship between race and nationalism in American literature.
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Table of contents
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- Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature *
- Title Page *
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments x
- Introduction 1
- Chapter 1 - Higher Law in the 1850s 12
- Chapter 2 - The Look of Higher Law: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Antislavery Fiction 56
- Chapter 3 - Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism: Emerson and Douglass 87
- Chapter 4 - The Positivist Alternative 131
- Chapter 5 - Charles Chesnutt and Moorfield Storey: Citizenship and the Flux of Contract 183
- Notes 223
- Index 293