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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Main Author: Lee, Maurice S
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University 2013
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Online Access:https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35019
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Institutions: Thư viện Trường Đại học Đà Lạt