Race, citizenship, and law in American literature /

Race, citizenship, and law in American literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crane, Gregg D. (Gregg David)
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 128.
Subjects:
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, > 1811-1896 > Views on slavery.
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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 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.