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Victory of Law : The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852-1867.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (254 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801889318
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Victory of LawDDC classification:
  • 810.9/358097309034
LOC classification:
  • PS217.S55N33
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Victory of LAW: Melville and Reconstruction -- 2 Shadows of Law: Somerset and the Literature of Abolition -- 3 Constitutional Disobedience: Thoreau, Sumner, and the Transcendental Law of the 1850s -- 4 Legal Sentences: Hawthorne's Sovereign Performatives and Hermeneutics of Freedom -- 5 John Bingham's Poetic Constitution -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.
Summary: This interdisciplinary study sheds light on the transformative significance of emerging legalist and constitutionalist forms of antislavery thinking on the literature of the 1850s and 1860s and the growing centrality of aesthetic considerations to antebellum American legal theory and practice--the historical terms in which a distinctively American cultural identity was conceived.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Victory of LAW: Melville and Reconstruction -- 2 Shadows of Law: Somerset and the Literature of Abolition -- 3 Constitutional Disobedience: Thoreau, Sumner, and the Transcendental Law of the 1850s -- 4 Legal Sentences: Hawthorne's Sovereign Performatives and Hermeneutics of Freedom -- 5 John Bingham's Poetic Constitution -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.

This interdisciplinary study sheds light on the transformative significance of emerging legalist and constitutionalist forms of antislavery thinking on the literature of the 1850s and 1860s and the growing centrality of aesthetic considerations to antebellum American legal theory and practice--the historical terms in which a distinctively American cultural identity was conceived.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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