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Facing the other : ethical disruption and the American mind
- Title
- Facing the other : ethical disruption and the American mind / Linda Bolton.
- Author
- Bolton, Linda, 1955-
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2004.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 209 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Horizons in theory and American culture
- Subjects
- Criticism, Textual
- United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865 > Sources
- Justice in literature
- Political ethics > United States > History > Sources
- United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783 > Sources
- Ethics in literature
- Other (Philosophy)
- Ethics > United States > History > Sources
- United States > Intellectual life > 1783-1865 > Sources
- Liberty in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-204) and index.
- Contents
- Towards confronting "the hatred by the other human" -- Facing alterity : the ethics of conversion in Crevecoeur's Letters from an American farmer -- In the name of "justice and humanity" : Thomas Paine's ethical envisionings of the American Republic -- Standing in the "field of freedom" : Thomas Jefferson and the reverberations of that declaratory promise -- Fugitive poseurs : the native eloquence of Frederick Douglass and Sarah Winnemucca -- In the presence of the great American criminal : John Brown's triumphant failure at Harpers Ferry.
- Call Number
- JFE 04-7912
- ISBN
- 0807129402 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003021388
- OCLC
- 53183434
- Author
- Bolton, Linda, 1955-
- Title
- Facing the other : ethical disruption and the American mind / Linda Bolton.
- Imprint
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2004.
- Series
- Horizons in theory and American culture
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-204) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 04-7912