Race, slavery, and liberalism in nineteenth-century American literature /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the figure a "person" makes : on the aesthetics of liberalism
- Slaves and persons
- Family values and racial essentialism in Uncle Tom's cabin
- Eva's hair and the sentiments of race
- A is for anything : US liberalism and the making of The scarlet letter
- The art of discrimination : The marble faun, "Chiefly about war matters," and the aesthetics of anti-Black racism
- Freedom, ethics, and the necessity of persons : Frederick Douglass and the scene of resistance.