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Race, citizenship, and law in American literature

In this broad ranging study, Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity, race and justice in American law and literature. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, this is a remarkably original book, that will revise the relationship between Race and Nationalism in American literature
eBook, English, 2002
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2002
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xi, 299 pages).
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Introduction
Higher law in the 1850s
The look of higher law: Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery fiction
Cosmopolitan constitutionalism: Emerson and Douglass
The positivist alternative
Charles Chesnutt and Moorfield Storey: citizenship and the flux of contract
English