Research Catalog

Title

Race, citizenship, and law in American literature / by Gregg D. Crane.

Author

Crane, Gregg.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description

xi, 299 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) In this broad ranging and powerful study, Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity, race and justice in American law and literature. Crane recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law into line with the moral consensus that slavery and racial oppression were evil. By documenting an actual historical interaction central both to American literature and American constitutional law, Crane reveals the influence of literature on the constitutional discourse of citizenship. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Frederick Douglass, and a whole range of novelists, poets, philosophers, politicians, lawyers and judges, this is a remarkably original book, that will revise the relationship between race and nationalism in American literature. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: American literature History and criticism, Law in literature, Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Views on slavery, African Americans in literature, Citizenship in literature, Slavery in literature, Racism in literature, Law and literature, Race in literature.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 128

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture 128.

Subject

• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 > Views on slavery
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 > Criticism and interpretation
• Geschichte 1830-1900
• American literature > History and criticism
• Law in literature
• African Americans in literature
• Citizenship in literature
• Slavery in literature
• Racism in literature
• Law and literature
• Race in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Series numbering provided by vendor.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Higher law in the 1850s -- The look of higher law: Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery fiction -- Cosmopolitan constitutionalism: Emerson and Douglass -- The positivist alternative -- Charles Chesnutt and Moorfield Storey: citizenship and the flux of contract.

ISBN

• 0521806844
• 0521010934

LCCN

^^2001037853

OCLC

• 47625306
• SCSB-10046641

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library