Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23767383 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maurice S Lee (University of Missouri, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830-1860 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511485572 |
| OpenAlex | W1488663535 |
| ISBN | 9780511485572 |
| Open Library | OL34437710M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
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 as the nation moved toward war, their writings form an uneasy transition between the confident rationalism of the American Enlightenment and the more skeptical thought of the pragmatists. Lee draws on antebellum moral philosophy, political theory, and metaphysics, bringing a different perspective to the literature of slavery - one that synthesizes cultural studies and intellectual history to argue that romantic, sentimental, and black Atlantic writers all struggled with modernity when facing the slavery crisis.
Enlightenment · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Modernity · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Pragmatism · Rationalism · Skepticism · Spanish Civil War · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · 19th century · American literature · History and criticism · Philosophy in literature · Slavery · Slavery in literature
Ontological Terror
O significado do 4 de julho para o negro, de Frederick Douglass
Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era
Melville and the Idea of Blackness
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature
Slave Narratives as Literature
White-Jacket
The Music and the Musical Inheritance of Slavery
Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century Literary Imagination
The Poetry of Slavery
U.S. Slave Revolutions in Atlantic World Literature
Louis Agassiz and the American School of Ethnoeroticism
“We wish to Plead our own Cause”
Framing the Black Soldier
“A More Perfect Likeness”
“Rightly Viewed”
Ida B. Wells and the Shadow Archive
Emerson's Crossing
The Cambridge History of African American Literature
Decolonizing the Ourang-Outang
Slavery
The People, Rhetoric, and Affect
| Citations per year | 1.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2023 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |