Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-292) and index.
1. At Emerson's Tomb -- 2. "Hamlet's Task": Emerson's Political Writings -- 3. Antebellum Slavery and Modern Criticism: Edgar Allan Poe's Pym and "The Purloined Letter" -- 4. A Critique of Ideology: Herman Melville's Pierre -- 5. Between Politics and Poetics: Frederick Douglass' Narrative of the Life of an American Slave, Written by Himself -- 6. Reconstructing The Family: Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- 7. The Body Poetic: Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps -- 8. Fatal Speculations -- Murder, Money, and Manners: Mark Twain's The Gilded Age and Pudd'nhead Wilson -- 9. The Politics of Innocence: Henry James' The American -- 10. The Economics of The Body: Kate Chopin's The Awakening -- 11. The African-American Voice: William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses -- 12. Revivals.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo,1803-1882-- Political and social views.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,1803-1882-- Political and social views.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,1803-1882
American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Antislavery movements-- United States.
Liberalism in literature.
Literature and society-- United States.
Politics and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.