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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521010931
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96307095
Product Key Features
Book Title
Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature
Author
Gregg D. CRANE
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2002
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
228mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
433g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Gregg D. CRANE
Series Title
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture