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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... society , " the ideal aims and values to be realized " by our political and legal scheme " remain unchanged in substance . " These ethical constants paradoxically furnish the necessary basis for ongoing revisions and improvisations ...
... society , " the ideal aims and values to be realized " by our political and legal scheme " remain unchanged in substance . " These ethical constants paradoxically furnish the necessary basis for ongoing revisions and improvisations ...
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... societies and eras while simultaneously being hon- est about the leap of faith that constitutes the primum mobile of all ... society , for such scholars , lamely ducks the harsh reality that democracy boils down to racism . Matthew Frye ...
... societies and eras while simultaneously being hon- est about the leap of faith that constitutes the primum mobile of all ... society , for such scholars , lamely ducks the harsh reality that democracy boils down to racism . Matthew Frye ...
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... society and justice . In the hands of its best nineteenth - century advocates , Emerson , Douglass , and Sumner , higher law offers a cosmopolitan discourse of jus- tice and citizenship enabling people of diverse backgrounds ...
... society and justice . In the hands of its best nineteenth - century advocates , Emerson , Douglass , and Sumner , higher law offers a cosmopolitan discourse of jus- tice and citizenship enabling people of diverse backgrounds ...
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Page 5 - Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then?