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Democratic discourses :

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0813535727

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0813535735

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0813537533

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1280360860

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6610360863

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9780813535722

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9780813535739

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9780813537535

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9781280360862

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9786610360864

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Democratic discourses :

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[Book]

Other Title Information

the radical abolition movement and antebellum American literature /

First Statement of Responsibility

Michael Bennett.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New Brunswick, N.J. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Rutgers University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2005.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (x, 223 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-198) and index.

Text of Note

In this path-breaking study, Michael Bennett departs from tradition to argue that the democratic ideal of equality and the actual ways in which it has been practiced are grounded less in the fledgling government documents written by a handful of white men than in the actions and writings of the radical abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Bringing together key texts of both African American and European American authors, Democratic Discourses shows the important ways that abolitionist writing shaped a powerful counterculture within a slave-holding society. Bennett offers fresh new analysis through unusual pairings of authors, including Frederick Douglass with Henry David Thoreau, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper with Walt Whitman, and Margaret Fuller with Sojourner Truth. These rereadings avoid the tendency to view antebellum writing as a product primarily of either European American or African American influences and, instead, illustrate the interconnections of white and black literature in the creation and practice of democracy. Drawing on discourses about race, the body, gender, economics, and aesthetics, this unique study encourages readers to reconsider the reality and roots of freedoms experienced in the United States today.

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MIL

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36086

Title

Democratic discourses.

International Standard Book Number

0813535735

Abolitionists-- United States-- Intellectual life.

African Americans in literature.

African Americans-- Intellectual life-- 19th century.

American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

American literature-- African American authors-- History and criticism.

Antislavery movements in literature.

Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Politics and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Radicalism in literature.

Radicalism-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Slavery in literature.

African Americans in literature.

African Americans-- Intellectual life.

American literature-- African American authors.

American literature.

Antislavery movements in literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

Literature and society.

Politics and literature.

Radicalism in literature.

Radicalism.

Slavery in literature.

United States.

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LIT-- 004020

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Bennett, Michael,1962-

Date of Transaction

20201206210244.0

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