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In defiance of the law : from Anne Hutchinson to Toni Morrison / Marisa Anne Pagnattaro.
LIBRA PS374.W6 P34 2001
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pagnattaro, Marisa Anne, 1961-
- Series:
- Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 26.
- Modern American literature : new approaches ; v. 26
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Women authors.
- Hutchinson, Anne, 1591-1643.
- Hutchinson, Anne.
- Women and literature--United States--History.
- Women and literature.
- African American women in literature.
- Law and literature.
- Justice in literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 229 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, [2001]
- Contents:
- Introduction: In Defiance of the Law 1
- Part I Testing the Bounds of Colonial Law 7
- Chapter 1 The Law of Divine Revelation: Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy 13
- Chapter 2 The Law of the Great Spirit: Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie 47
- Part II Overcoming Slave Law 77
- Chapter 3 Preemancipation Activism: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 83
- Chapter 4 Perspectives after Civil Rights: Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose and Toni Morrison's Beloved 115
- Conclusion: Beyond the Rule of Law 155.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-225) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0820451150
- OCLC:
- 44619417
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