Political antislavery discourse and American literature of the 1850s
By: David Grant
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Newark; Lanham, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781611493832; 9781611493849
Subjects: Politics and government; Republicanism in literature; Slavery in literature; History and criticism; American literature; Antislavery movements in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: American literature and the political antislavery call for Northern agency; title: Stowe's Dred and the narrative logic of slavery's extension; title: Sovereignty and the politics of analogy in Whittier's "The panorama"; title: Self-abasement and Republican insecurity : Willis's Paul Fane in its political context; title: Ophelia and the economy of passion in Uncle Tom's Cabin; title: "Our nation's hope is she" : the cult of Jessie Fremont in the Republican campaign poetry of 1856; title: "Fall behind me, States!" : reexamining the politics of Union in Leaves of grass