Editorial Reviews
Review
'A profound and moving book that deserves a wide audience. Crane displays a searching wisdom and precise imagination in brilliantly describing the moral universe where literature and law meet in key texts of the nineteenth century. An indispensable study of nationalism and race and their impact on American law and literature.' Eric Sundquist
'An ambitious, brilliant, study of American literary and legal texts from the late eighteenth into the twentieth century. This profoundly interdisciplinary study of law and literature, written by someone who has clearly mastered both disciplines, is also a major contribution to African American literary and cultural studies.' Robert Levine
'This book will force scholars in the field to revise their understanding of the political heritage of the Emersonian tradition.' Brook Thomas
Book Description
Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity and race and justice within American law and literature in this study. He recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law in accord with the moral consensus that slavery and racial oppression are evil. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, and a range of novelists, poets, philosophers, politicians, lawyers and judges, this original book will revise the relationship between race and nationalism in American literature.
Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture),Gregg D. Crane,Albert Gelpi,Ross Posnock,Cambridge University Press,0521806844,1811-1896,African Americans in literature,American - General,American Literature (Specific Aspects),American literature,Civil Law,General,History and criticism,Law in literature,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Stowe, Harriet Beecher,,American English,American literature--History and criticism,American studies,Literary Criticism & Collections / American,Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries,Literary studies: from c 1900 -,Stowe, Harriet Beecher,USA,Views on slavery
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