Race, slavery, and liberalism in nineteenth-century American literature
By: Arthur Riss.
Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture; Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;; 150.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780521856744
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Criticism and interpretation; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Slavery in literature; Race in literature; Liberalism in literature; African Americans in literature; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The figure a "person" makes : on the aesthetics of liberalism; title: Slaves and persons; title: Family values and racial essentialism in Uncle Tom's cabin; title: Eva's hair and the sentiments of race; title: A is for anything : US liberalism and the making of The scarlet letter; title: The art of discrimination : The marble faun, "Chiefly about war matters," and the aesthetics of anti-Black racism; title: Freedom, ethics, and the necessity of persons : Frederick Douglass and the scene of resistance.