Antislavery discourse and Nineteenth-Century american literature: incendiary pictures

This book examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of 'free labour' in mid-nineteenth-century America. INDICE: - Introduction - The Emergence of the Family Politics Campaign andAntislavery Sentimentality - Marketplace Politics in The Scarlet Letter - Lydia Maria Child and the Mothering State - The Invisible Hand of the Marketplace: E.D.E.N. Southworth's Southern Reforms - 'The White Slave of the North': Lowell Mill Women and the Evolution of 'Free Labour' - The End of Antislavery Sentimentality: Frederick Douglass's Post-Civil War Performance of Masculinity

• ISBN: 978-0-230-62148-0
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 192
• Fecha Publicación: 17/03/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés