Democratic Discourses : The Radical Abolition Movement and Antebellum American Literature.
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TextPublisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (237 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813537535
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Slavery in literature
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- 810.9/3552
- PS217.S55 -- B46 2005eb
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1:Democratic Discourses: Visiting the National Anti-Slavery Bazaar -- Chapter 2: Bodily Democracy: Frances Ellen Watkins and Walt Whitman Sing the Body Electric -- Chapter 3: Gender Democracy: Margaret Fuller and Sojourner Truth Argue the Case of Woman versus Women -- Chapter 4: Economic Democracy: Frederick Douglass and Henry David Thoreau Negotiate the Mason-Dixon Line -- Chapter 5: Aesthetic Democracy: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Jacobs Represent the End(s) of Slavery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author.
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