By Michael T. Gilmore
How did slavery and race impression American literature within the 19th century? during this bold e-book, Michael T. Gilmore argues that they have been the companies of linguistic limit, and writers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Crane wrestled with the calls for for silence and circumspection that followed the antebellum worry of disunion and the postwar reconciliation among the North and South.
Proposing an intensive new interpretation of nineteenth-century American literature, The struggle on phrases examines struggles over permissible and impermissible utterance in works starting from Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” to Henry James’s The Bostonians. Combining historic wisdom with groundbreaking readings of a few of the vintage texts of the yank prior, The conflict on Words locations Lincoln’s Cooper Union handle within the similar constellation as Margaret Fuller’s feminism and Thomas Dixon’s security of lynching. Arguing that slavery and race exerted coercive strain on freedom of expression, Gilmore deals right here a transformative learn that alters our figuring out of nineteenth-century literary tradition and its fraught engagement with the perfect to speak.
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