Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature : Incendiary Pictures / by J. Husband.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Husband, Julie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature.

America--Literatures.

America.

Literature, Modern--19th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literature--Philosophy.

African Americans.

Culture.

Human rights.

World Literature.

North American Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Literary Theory.

African American Culture.

Human Rights.

Local Subjects:

World Literature.

North American Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Literary Theory.

African American Culture.

Human Rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2010.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of "free labor" in mid-nineteenth-century America. Husband shows how the images of families split apart by slavery, circulated primarily by women leaders, proved to be the most powerful weapon in the antislavery cultural campaign and ultimately turned the nation against slavery. She also reveals the ways in which the sentimental narratives and icons that constituted the "family protection campaign" powerfully influenced Americans sense of the role of government, gender, and race in industrializing America. Chapters examine the writings of ardent abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, non-activist sympathizers, and those actively hostile to but deeply immersed in antislavery activism including Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1 Central Feminist Abolitionists and the Wage Labor System; 1 The Emergence of the Family Protection Campaign and Antislavery Sentimentality; 2 Anticipating Progressive Era Reformers: Lydia Maria Child and the Mothering State; Part 2 Adaptations of the Antislavery Family Protection Campaign; 3 Marketplace Politics in The Scarlet Letter; 4 The Invisible Hand of the Marketplace: E.D.E.N. Southworth's Southern Reforms; 5 ""The White Slave of the North"": Lowell Mill Women and the Evolution of ""Free Labor""

Part 3 The End of Antislavery Sentimentality6 Frederick Douglass's Post-Civil War Performance of Masculinity; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612908743

9781282908741

128290874X

9780230105218

0230105211

OCLC:

649366323