Victory of law : the Fourteenth amendment, the Civil War, and American literature, 1852-1867 / Deak Nabers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nabers, Deak.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--Political aspects.

American literature.

Antislavery movements in literature.

Antislavery movements--United States--History.

Antislavery movements.

Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Rhetoric.

United States--Politics and government--19th century.

United States.

United States. Constitution--14th Amendment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This interdisciplinary study sheds light on the transformative significance of emerging legalist and constitutionalist forms of antislavery thinking on the literature of the 1850s and 1860s and the growing centrality of aesthetic considerations to antebellum American legal theory and practice--the historical terms in which a distinctively American cultural identity was conceived.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1 Victory of LAW: Melville and Reconstruction

2 Shadows of Law: Somerset and the Literature of Abolition

3 Constitutional Disobedience: Thoreau, Sumner, and the Transcendental Law of the 1850s

4 Legal Sentences: Hawthorne's Sovereign Performatives and Hermeneutics of Freedom

5 John Bingham's Poetic Constitution

Notes

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-234) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-8931-6

OCLC:

213306078