Slavery Philosophy And American Literature 1830 1860
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Slavery Philosophy And American Literature 1830 1860
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Author : Maurice S. Lee
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-06-17
Slavery Philosophy And American Literature 1830 1860 written by Maurice S. Lee and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-17 with History categories.
Lee demonstrates how Melville, Emerson and others tried to find rational solutions to the slavery conflict.
Exceptional Violence And The Crisis Of Classic American Literature
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Author : Joseph Fichtelberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-08-24
Exceptional Violence And The Crisis Of Classic American Literature written by Joseph Fichtelberg and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States endured sustained conflicts over the nature and operation of sovereignty in the unsettled era from the Founding to the Civil War, the book presents two forms of governance: local and regional control, and national governance. The period’s states of exception arose from these clashing imperatives, creating contests over land, finance, and, above all, slavery, that drove national politics. Extensively employing the political and cultural insights of Walter Benjamin, this book surveys antebellum American writers to understand how they situated themselves and their work in relation to these episodes, specifically focusing on the experience of violence. Exploring the work of Edgar Allan Poe, ex-slave narrators like Moses Roper and Henry Bibb, Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson, the book applies some central aspects of Walter Benjamin’s literary and cultural criticism to the deep investment in pain in antebellum politics and culture.
The Cambridge Companion To Slavery In American Literature
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Author : Ezra Tawil
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-29
The Cambridge Companion To Slavery In American Literature written by Ezra Tawil and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significance of slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day. In addition to stressing how central slavery has been to the study of American culture, this Companion provides students with a broad introduction to an impressive range of authors including Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Toni Morrison. Accessible to students and academics alike, this Companion surveys the critical landscape of a major field and lays the foundations for future studies.
Postwar American Fiction And The Rise Of Modern Conservatism
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Author : Bryan M. Santin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-11
Postwar American Fiction And The Rise Of Modern Conservatism written by Bryan M. Santin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shows how shifting views on race caused the American conservative movement to surrender highbrow fiction to to progressive liberals.
American Literature And Immediacy
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Author : Heike Schaefer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-16
American Literature And Immediacy written by Heike Schaefer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Demonstrates that the quest for immediacy, or experiences of direct connection and presence, has propelled the development of American literature and media culture.
Pictures And Progress
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Author : Maurice O. Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-19
Pictures And Progress written by Maurice O. Wallace and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-19 with Art categories.
Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions about race and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. They sought both to counter widely circulating racist imagery and to use self-representation as a means of empowerment. In this collection of essays, scholars from various disciplines consider figures including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and W. E. B. Du Bois as important and innovative theorists and practitioners of photography. In addition, brief interpretive essays, or "snapshots," highlight and analyze the work of four early African American photographers. Featuring more than seventy images, Pictures and Progress brings to light the wide-ranging practices of early African American photography, as well as the effects of photography on racialized thinking. Contributors. Michael A. Chaney, Cheryl Finley, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Ginger Hill, Leigh Raiford, Augusta Rohrbach, Ray Sapirstein, Suzanne N. Schneider, Shawn Michelle Smith, Laura Wexler, Maurice O. Wallace
Nineteenth Century American Literature And The Discourse Of Natural History
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Author : Juliana Chow
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-18
Nineteenth Century American Literature And The Discourse Of Natural History written by Juliana Chow and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.
Slavery Surveillance And Genre In Antebellum United States Literature
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Author : Kelly Ross
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-20
Slavery Surveillance And Genre In Antebellum United States Literature written by Kelly Ross and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-20 with Literary Collections categories.
Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and race by tracing how surveillance migrates from the literature of slavery to crime, gothic, and detective fiction. Attending to the long history of surveillance and policing of African Americans, the book challenges the traditional conception of surveillance as a top-down enterprise, equally addressing the tactics of sousveillance (watching from below) that enslaved people and their allies used to resist, escape, or merely survive racial subjugation. Examining the dialectic of racialized surveillance and sousveillance from fugitive slave narratives to fictional genres focused on crime and detection, the book shows how these genres share a thematic concern with the surveillance of racialized bodies and formal experimentation with ways of telling a story in which certain information is either rendered visible or kept hidden. Through close readings of understudied fugitive slave narratives published in the 1820s and 1830s, as well as texts by Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Hannah Crafts, and Harriet Jacobs, Ross analyzes the different ways white and black authors take up these issues in their writing—from calming white fears of enslaved rebellion to abolishing slavery—and demonstrates how literary representations ultimately destabilize any clear-cut opposition between watching from above and below. In so doing, the book demonstrates the importance of race to surveillance studies and claims a greater role for the impact of surveillance on literary expression in the US during the era of slavery.
The Politics Of Anxiety In Nineteenth Century American Literature
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Author : Justine S. Murison
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-21
The Politics Of Anxiety In Nineteenth Century American Literature written by Justine S. Murison and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
For much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies and exciting great public interest. Because of this widespread fascination, the nerves came to explain the means by which mind and body related to each other. By the 1830s, the nervous system helped Americans express the consequences on the body, and for society, of major historical changes. Literary writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harriet Beecher Stowe, used the nerves as a metaphor to re-imagine the role of the self amidst political, social and religious tumults, including debates about slavery and the revivals of the Second Great Awakening. Representing the 'romance' of the nervous system and its cultural impact thoughtfully and, at times, critically, the fictional experiments of this century helped construct and explore a neurological vision of the body and mind. Murison explains the impact of neurological medicine on nineteenth-century literature and culture.
The Archive Of Fear
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Author : Christina Zwarg
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-15
The Archive Of Fear written by Christina Zwarg and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing on U.S. slavery and its aftermath in the nineteenth century, The Archive of Fear explores the traumatic force field that continued to inflect discussions of slavery and abolition both before and after the Civil War. It challenges the long-assumed distinction between psychological and cultural-historical theories of trauma, discovering a virtual dialogue between three central U. S. writers and Sigmund Freud concerning the traumatic response of slavery's perpetrators. A strain of trauma theory and practice comes alive in the temporal and spatial disruptions of New World slavery-and The Archive of Fear shows how key elements of that theory still inform the infrastructure of race relations today. It argues that trauma theory before Freud first involves a return to an overlap between crisis, insurrection, and mesmerism found in the work of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Mesmer's "crisis state" has long been read as the precursor to hypnosis, the tool Freud famously rejected when he created psychoanalysis. But the story of what was lost to trauma theory when Freud adopted the "talk cure" can be told through cultural disruptions of New World slavery, especially after mesmerism arrived in Saint Domingue where its implication in the Haitian revolution in both reality and fantasy had an impact on the history of emancipation in the United States.