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ISBN: 0521152682

ISBN13: 9780521152686

Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830-1860

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)

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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...

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