Righteous violence [electronic resource] : revolution, slavery, and the American renaissance / Larry J. Reynolds.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780820342115
- 0820342114
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Social change in literature
- Political violence in literature
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Authors, American -- 19th century -- Political and social views
- 810.9/358 22
- PS217.P64 R49 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Margaret Fuller's revolutionary example -- Emerson, guns, and bloodlust -- Douglass, insurrection, and the heroic slave -- Contemplation versus violence in Thoreau's world -- Violent virtue and Alcott's moods -- Pacifism, savagery, and Hawthorne's last romances -- The revolutionary times of Melville's Billy Budd.
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