Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Incendiary Pictures

✍ Scribed by Julie Husband (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 168
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Emergence of the Family Protection Campaign and Antislavery Sentimentality....Pages 11-20
Anticipating Progressive Era Reformers: Lydia Maria Child and the Mothering State....Pages 21-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Marketplace Politics in The Scarlet Letter....Pages 43-61
The Invisible Hand of the Marketplace: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Southern Reforms....Pages 63-82
“The White Slave of the North”: Lowell Mill Women and the Evolution of “Free Labor”....Pages 83-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Frederick Douglass’s Post-Civil War Performance of Masculinity....Pages 113-128
Back Matter....Pages 129-160

✦ Subjects

Postcolonial/World Literature; North American Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Literary Theory; African American Culture; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights

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