Slavery, philosophy, and American literature, 1830-1860

Maurice S. Lee demonstrates for the first time how the slavery crisis became a crisis of philosophy that exposed the breakdown of national consensus and the limits of rational authority. Poe, Stowe, Douglass, Melville, and Emerson were among the antebellum authors who tried - and failed - to find ra...

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Auteur principal:	Lee, Maurice S
Format:	Livre
Langue:	English
Publié:	Cambridge University 2013
Sujets:	American literature History and criticism Slavery in literature
Accès en ligne:	https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35019
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Slavery, philosophy, and American literature, 1830-1860

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