Race, Citizenship, and Law in American LiteratureCambridge University Press, 2002 M01 24 - 299 pages Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) In this broad ranging and powerful study, Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity, race and justice in American law and literature. Crane recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law into line with the moral consensus that slavery and racial oppression were evil. By documenting an actual historical interaction central both to American literature and American constitutional law, Crane reveals the influence of literature on the constitutional discourse of citizenship. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Frederick Douglass, and a whole range of novelists, poets, philosophers, politicians, lawyers and judges, this is a remarkably original book, that will revise the relationship between race and nationalism in American literature. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: American literature History and criticism, Law in literature, Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Views on slavery, African Americans in literature, Citizenship in literature, Slavery in literature, Racism in literature, Law and literature, Race in literature. |
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... American Poetry , 1908-1934 124 KEVIN J. HAYES Poe and the Printed Word 123 JEFFREY A. HAMMOND The American Puritan Elegy : A Literary and Cultural Study 122 CAROLINE DORESKI 121 Writing America Black : Race Rhetoric and the Public ...
... American Poetry , 1908-1934 124 KEVIN J. HAYES Poe and the Printed Word 123 JEFFREY A. HAMMOND The American Puritan Elegy : A Literary and Cultural Study 122 CAROLINE DORESKI 121 Writing America Black : Race Rhetoric and the Public ...
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... Americans have revered the national charter because they believe it to embody universal principles of justice . ' And despite the obvious and manifold injustices of American history , this " constitutional faith " in Justice Hugo ...
... Americans have revered the national charter because they believe it to embody universal principles of justice . ' And despite the obvious and manifold injustices of American history , this " constitutional faith " in Justice Hugo ...
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... Franklin ( a witness who testified effectively against Bork's confirmation ) , Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas , or such fiction as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Richard 4 Race , Citizenship , and Law in American ...
... Franklin ( a witness who testified effectively against Bork's confirmation ) , Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas , or such fiction as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Richard 4 Race , Citizenship , and Law in American ...
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... American law as an inter- play of conscience ( moral inspiration ) and consent ( political dialogue ) , which produces a plausibly universal moral consensus about the terms of justice and citizenship . This consensus becomes plausibly ...
... American law as an inter- play of conscience ( moral inspiration ) and consent ( political dialogue ) , which produces a plausibly universal moral consensus about the terms of justice and citizenship . This consensus becomes plausibly ...
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