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Victory of law : the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American literature, 1852-1867
- Title
- Victory of law : the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American literature, 1852-1867 / Deak Nabers.
- Author
- Nabers, Deak.
- Publication
- Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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- Description
- xii, 239 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century
- Antislavery movements > United States > History
- United States > Politics and government > 19th century
- United States Constitution 14th Amendment
- Antislavery movements in literature
- American literature > 19th century > Political aspects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-234) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Victory of Law: Melville and Reconstruction -- 2. Shadows of Law: Somerset and the Literature of Abolition -- 3. Constitutional Disobedience: Thoreau, Sumner, and the Transcendental Law of the 1850s -- 4. Legal Sentences: Hawthorne's Sovereign Performatives and Hermeneutics of Freedom -- 5. John Bingham's Poetic Constitution.
- ISBN
- 0801883504 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005032109
- 9780801883507
- OCLC
- OCM62282043
- SCSB-5277308
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries