Righteous violence
Subtitle: revolution, slavery, and the American renaissance
By: Larry J. Reynolds
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780820328256; 9780820341408
Subjects: Politics and literature; Literature and society; Social change in literature; American Authors; Political and social views; Antislavery movements; Political violence in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Margaret Fuller's revolutionary example; title: Emerson, guns, and bloodlust; title: Douglass, insurrection, and the heroic slave; title: Contemplation versus violence in Thoreau's world; title: Violent virtue and Alcott's moods; title: Pacifism, savagery, and Hawthorne's last romances; title: The revolutionary times of Melville's Billy Budd.