Political Antislavery Discourse and American Literature of the 1850s
Appalled and paralyzed. Abandoned and betrayed. Cowed and bowed. Thus did Frederick Douglass describe the North in the wake of the compromise measures of 1850 that seemed to enshrine concessions to slavery permanently into the American political system. This study discovers in a feature of political anti-slavery discourse-the condemnation of an enfeebled North-the key to a wide variety of literary works of the 1850s. Both the political discourse and the literature set out to expose the self-chosen degradation of compromise as a threat at once to the personal foundation of each individual Northerner and to the survival of the people as an acto…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61149-383-2
- EAN: 9781611493832
- Produktnummer: 12461904
- Verlag: University of Delaware Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 236 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.8 cm 521 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 521
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David Grant is a faculty member in the Department of English at Grant MacEwan University.
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