Race, citizenship, and law in American literature / by Gregg D. Crane.

Author
Crane, Gregg [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Description
xi, 299 p. ; 24 cm.

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Summary note
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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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Higher law in the 1850s
  • The look of higher law: Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery fiction
  • Cosmopolitan constitutionalism: Emerson and Douglass
  • The positivist alternative
  • Charles Chesnutt and Moorfield Storey: citizenship and the flux of contract.
ISBN
  • 0521806844
  • 0521010934
LCCN
^^2001037853
OCLC
47625306
RCP
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