Race, Citizenship, and Law in American LiteratureCambridge University Press, 24. jan. 2002 - 299 strani 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. |
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Higher law in the 185os | 12 |
The look of higher law Harriet Beecher Stowes antislavery ftction | 56 |
Cosmopolitan constitutionalism Emerson and Douglass | 87 |
The positivist alternative | 131 |
Charles Chesnutt and Moorfield Storey citizenship and the flux of contract | 183 |
Notes | 223 |
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abolitionist abstract African Americans American law antislavery black Americans Blake Cambridge Charles Chesnutt Charles Sumner Chesnutt Civil Rights Civil War amendments colored conception conscience and consent Constitution cosmopolitan cultural Delany Delany's Dred Scott equality ethical fiction Fitzhugh Francis Lieber freak Frederick Douglass freedom Fugitive Slave Law George George Fitzhugh Harvard University Press higher law argument higher law constitutionalism Holmes Holmes's human Ibid identity inspiration Jim Crow John Judge jurisprudential Langston language legislation liberty of contract literary majority majority's Martin Delany Moorfield Storey moral consensus moral sense narrative Negro norms novel opinion Oxford University Press Plessy political positivism positivist principles proslavery Pudd'nhead Wilson race racial racism Ralph Waldo Emerson reform relations republican sentiment Seward slavery social society Southern speech Spofford Stowe Stowe's Sundquist Supreme Court Taney Taney's theory tion tradition transformation Twain Uncle Tom's Cabin vision Webster William York
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Stran 5 - Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then?