عنوان

Abolitionist geographies /

شابک

0816680744 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

شابک

0816680752 (paperback : acid-free paper)

شابک

9780816680740 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

شابک

9780816680757 (paperback : acid-free paper)

شماره

b415911

عنوان اصلي

Abolitionist geographies /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Martha Schoolman

نام خاص و کميت اثر

228 pages ;

ابعاد

23 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

Introduction: What Is Abolitionist Geography? -- Emerson's Hemisphere -- August First and the Practice of Disunion -- William Wells Brown's Critical Cosmopolitanism -- Uncle Tom's Cabin's Anti-Expansionism -- The Maroon's Moment, 1856/1861

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"Traditional narratives of the period leading up to the Civil War are invariably framed in geographical terms. The sectional descriptors of the North, South, and West, like the wartime categories of Union, Confederacy, and border states, mean little without reference to a map of the United States. In Abolitionist Geographies, Martha Schoolman contends that antislavery writers consistently refused those standard terms. Through the idiom Schoolman names 'abolitionist geography,' these writers instead expressed their dissenting views about the westward extension of slavery, the intensification of the internal slave trade, and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law by appealing to other anachronistic, partial, or entirely fictional north-south and east-west axes. Abolitionism's West, for instance, rarely reached beyond the Mississippi River, but its East looked to Britain for ideological inspiration, its North habitually traversed the Canadian border, and its South often spanned the geopolitical divide between the United States and the British Caribbean. Schoolman traces this geography of dissent through the work of Martin Delany, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others. Her book explores new relationships between New England transcendentalism and the British West Indies; African-American cosmopolitanism, Britain, and Haiti; sentimental fiction, Ohio, and Liberia; John Brown's Appalachia and circum-Caribbean marronage. These connections allow us to see clearly for the first time abolitionist literature's explicit and intentional investment in geography as an idiom of political critique, by turns liberal and radical, practical and utopian"--

موضوع مستند نشده

Brown, William Wells,1814?-1884-- Criticism and interpretation

موضوع مستند نشده

Delany, Martin Robison,1812-1885-- Criticism and interpretation

موضوع مستند نشده

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,1803-1882-- Criticism and interpretation

موضوع مستند نشده

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,1811-1896-- Criticism and interpretation

موضوع مستند نشده

Abolitionists-- United States-- History-- 19th century

موضوع مستند نشده

African Americans in literature

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

Antislavery movements in literature

موضوع مستند نشده

Antislavery movements-- United States-- History-- 19th century

موضوع مستند نشده

Geography in literature

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Schoolman, Martha

تاريخ عمليات

20141024112210.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y