Creating the culture of reform in antebellum America
By: T. Gregory Garvey.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780820326856
Subjects: Social reformers -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- History -- 1815-1861; United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Discursive democracy and the culture of reform; title: Religious pluralism and the origins of the culture of reform; title: Sincerity and publicity in the Grimké-Beecher debate; title: Garrison, Douglass, and the problem of politics; title: Emerson's self-reliance as a theory of community; title: Epilogue : sincerity and pluralism in critical conversation.