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Temperance and cosmopolitanism : African American reformers in the Atlantic world / Carole Lynn Stewart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stewart, Carole Lynn, author.
- Series:
- Africana religions.
- Africana religions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- African American social reformers--History--19th century.
- African American social reformers.
- Cosmopolitanism in literature.
- Temperance in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "A study of select nineteenth-century African American authors and reformers who mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : slave travels and the beginnings of a temperate cosmopolitanism
- William Wells Brown and Martin Delany : civil and geographic spaces of temperate cosmopolitanism
- Brown's temperate cosmopolitan "home" : Creole civilization and temperate manners
- George Moses Horton's freedom : a temperate republicanism and a critical cosmopolitanism
- Frances E. W. Harper's Black cosmopolitan Creoles : a temperate transnationalism
- "The quintessence of sanctifying grace" : Amanda Smith's religious experience, freedom, and a temperate cosmopolitanism
- Epilogue : tempering and conjuring the roots of cosmopolitan recovery.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271083117
- 0271083115
- 9780271083094
- 0271083093
- OCLC:
- 1062360655
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