War on Words

Name: War on Words
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226294131
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Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature

Autor: Michael T. Gilmore

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Väzba: Pevná

Vydavateľ: The University of Chicago Press

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How did slavery and race impact American literature in the nineteenth century? In this ambitious boo...

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Autor

Michael T. Gilmore

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

2010

Stránok

344

EAN

9780226294131

ISBN

0226294137

Enbook ID

04545163

Vydavateľ

The University of Chicago Press

Hmotnosť

596

Rozmery

162 x 235 x 24

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How did slavery and race impact American literature in the nineteenth century? In this ambitious book, Michael T. Gilmore argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Crane wrestled with the demands for silence and circumspection that accompanied the antebellum fear of disunion and the postwar reconciliation between the North and South. Proposing a radical new interpretation of nineteenth-century American literature, "The War on Words" examines struggles over permissible and impermissible utterance in works ranging from Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" to Henry James' "The Bostonians". Combining historical knowledge with groundbreaking readings of some of the classic texts of the American past, "The War on Words" places Lincoln's Cooper Union address in the same constellation as Margaret Fuller's feminism and Thomas Dixon's defense of lynching. Arguing that slavery and race exerted coercive pressure on freedom of expression, Gilmore offers here a transformative study that alters our understanding of nineteenth-century literary culture and its fraught engagement with the right to speak.

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