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 | | Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Gregg D. Crane ISBN-10: 9780521806848 ISBN-10: 0-521-80684-4 ISBN-13: 9780521806848 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-80684-8 Hardcover 2002-01-28 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity and race and justice within American law and literature in this study. He recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law in accord with the moral consensus that slavery and racial oppression are evil. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, and a range of novelists, poets, philosophers, politicians, lawyers and judges, this original book will revise the relationship between race and nationalism in American literature. | ||
Book Description In this broad ranging study, Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity, race and justice in American law and literature. Crane recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nations law into line with the moral consensus that slavery and racial oppression were evil. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, and a whole range of novelists, poets, philosophers, politicians, lawyers and judges, this is a remarkably original book, that will revise the relationship between Race and Nationalism in American literature. | ||
Download Description In this broad ranging and powerful study, Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity, race and justice in American law and literature. Crane recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law into line with the moral consensus that slavery and racial oppression were evil. By documenting an actual historical interaction central both to American literature and American constitutional law, Crane reveals the influence of literature on the constitutional discourse of citizenship. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Frederick Douglass, and a whole range of novelists, poets, philosophers, politicians, lawyers and judges, this is a remarkably original book, that will revise the relationship between race and nationalism in American literature. | ||