Maurice S Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurice S Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurice S |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was born a slave and lived to become a best-selling author and a leading figure of the abolitionist movement. A powerful orator and writer, Douglass provided a unique voice advocating human rights and freedom across the nineteenth century, and remains an important figure in the fight against racial injustice. This Companion, designed for students of American history and literature, includes essays from prominent scholars workin…
Probably Poe
Edgar Allan Poe's texts famously set reason against irrationality, usually formulated in terms of gothic horror, linguistic indeterminacy, psychosexual anxiety, racial fear, or some combination thereof. The disruptive power of chance is less noticed but nonetheless crucial to Poe's writings about the limits of reason, particularly his tales of ratiocination-"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), "The Mystery of Marie Roget" (1842-43), and "The P…
Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860
Examining the literature of slavery and race before the Civil War, Maurice Lee, in this 2005 book, demonstrates how the slavery crisis became a crisis of philosophy that exposed the breakdown of national consensus and the limits of rational authority. Poe, Stowe, Douglass, Melville, and Emerson were among the antebellum authors who tried - and failed - to find rational solutions to the slavery conflict. Unable to mediate the slavery controversy a…
Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830-1860
"Maurice S. Lee demonstrates for the first time how the slavery crisis became a crisis of philosophy that exposed the breakdown of national consensus and the limits of rational authority. Poe, Stowe, Douglass, Melville, and Emerson were among the antebellum authors who tried - and failed - to find rational solutions to the slavery conflict. Drawing on antebellum moral philosophy, political theory, and metaphysics, Lee brings a fresh perspective t…
Absolute Poe
Research Article| December 01 2003 Absolute Poe: His System of Transcendental Racism Maurice S. Lee Maurice S. Lee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 751–781. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-751 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Maurice S. Lee; Absolute Poe: His System of Transcendental Racism. American Literature 1 Dec…
Melville's Subversive Political Philosophy
American Literature - Volume 72, Number 3, September 2000
Probably Poe
Edgar Allan Poe's texts famously set reason against irrationality, usually formulated in terms of gothic horror, linguistic indeterminacy, psychosexual anxiety, racial fear, or some combination thereof. The disruptive power of chance is less noticed but nonetheless crucial to Poe's writings about the limits of reason, particularly his tales of ratiocination-"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), "The Mystery of Marie Roget" (1842-43), and "The P…
Melville's Subversive Political Philosophy
American Literature - Volume 72, Number 3, September 2000
Absolute Poe
Research Article| December 01 2003 Absolute Poe: His System of Transcendental Racism Maurice S. Lee Maurice S. Lee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 751–781. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-751 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Maurice S. Lee; Absolute Poe: His System of Transcendental Racism. American Literature 1 Dec…
Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860
Examining the literature of slavery and race before the Civil War, Maurice Lee, in this 2005 book, demonstrates how the slavery crisis became a crisis of philosophy that exposed the breakdown of national consensus and the limits of rational authority. Poe, Stowe, Douglass, Melville, and Emerson were among the antebellum authors who tried - and failed - to find rational solutions to the slavery conflict. Unable to mediate the slavery controversy a…
Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830-1860
"Maurice S. Lee demonstrates for the first time how the slavery crisis became a crisis of philosophy that exposed the breakdown of national consensus and the limits of rational authority. Poe, Stowe, Douglass, Melville, and Emerson were among the antebellum authors who tried - and failed - to find rational solutions to the slavery conflict. Drawing on antebellum moral philosophy, political theory, and metaphysics, Lee brings a fresh perspective t…
The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was born a slave and lived to become a best-selling author and a leading figure of the abolitionist movement. A powerful orator and writer, Douglass provided a unique voice advocating human rights and freedom across the nineteenth century, and remains an important figure in the fight against racial injustice. This Companion, designed for students of American history and literature, includes essays from prominent scholars workin…
Probably Poe
Edgar Allan Poe's texts famously set reason against irrationality, usually formulated in terms of gothic horror, linguistic indeterminacy, psychosexual anxiety, racial fear, or some combination thereof. The disruptive power of chance is less noticed but nonetheless crucial to Poe's writings about the limits of reason, particularly his tales of ratiocination-"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), "The Mystery of Marie Roget" (1842-43), and "The P…
Philosophy (4 works) · 19th century (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · American literature (2 works)