Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830-1860 Paperback: 148 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 148) - Softcover

Lee, Maurice S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521152682 ISBN 13: 9780521152686

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Maurice Lee, in this 2005 book, demonstrates how the slavery crisis became a crisis of philosophy. Poe, Stowe, Douglass, Melville, and Emerson tried - and failed - to find rational solutions to the slavery conflict. Drawing on antebellum moral philosophy, political theory, and metaphysics, Lee brings a different perspective to the literature of slavery.

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Review of the hardback: '... a thought-provoking attempt to integrate antebellum literature into an American intellectual history from American Enlightenment to postbellum pragmatism.' Journal of American Studies

Review of the hardback: 'The chapters on Poe and Stowe dazzle most ... Lee's knowledge of philosophy and literature is broad, deep, and in constant service; his prose ripples with instructive allusions near and far.' Literature and History

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521152682
• ISBN 13: 9780521152686
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232