Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-204) and index.
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION: Towards Confronting the "Hatred by the Other Human"; 1 FACING ALTERITY: The Ethics of Conversion in Crvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer; 2 IN THE NAME OF "JUSTICE AND HUMANITY": Thomas Paine's Ethical Envisionings of the American Republic; 3 STANDING IN THE "FIELD OF FREEDOM": Thomas Jefferson and the Reverberations of that Declaratory Promise; 4 FUGITIVE POSEURS: The Native Eloquence of Frederick Douglass and Sarah Winnemucca; 5 IN THE PRESENCE OF THE GREAT AMERICAN CRIMINAL: John Brown's Triumphant Failure at Harpers Ferry.
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Bolton is admirably focused, centering broader ventures around precise turning points in the documents and incidents she has selected. ... The book crosses generic boundaries ... in the spirit of an other who transcends any single history or discipline. Religion and LiteratureLinda Bolton uses six extraordinarily resonant moments in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American history to highlight the ethical challenge that the treatment of Native and African persons presented to the new republicÆs ideal of freedom. Most daringly, she examines the efficacy of the Declaration of Independenc.
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Title
Facing the Other.
International Standard Book Number
9780807136461
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Criticism, Textual.
Ethics in literature.
Ethics-- United States-- History, Sources.
Justice in literature.
Liberty in literature.
Other (Philosophy)
Political ethics-- United States-- History, Sources.
Criticism, Textual.
Ethics in literature.
Ethics.
Intellectual life.
Justice in literature.
Liberty in literature.
Other (Philosophy)
Political ethics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- General.
Politics and government
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States, Intellectual life, 1783-1865, Sources.
United States, Politics and government, 1775-1783, Sources.
United States, Politics and government, 1783-1865, Sources.