Title Race, citizenship, and law in American literature / by Gregg D. Crane.

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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 299 pages).
Series	Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 128
	Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 128.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-292) and index.
Contents	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.
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Summary	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.
Subject	Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
	Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. (OCoLC)fst00041230
	American literature -- History and criticism.
	Law in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Citizenship in literature.
	Slavery in literature.
	Racism in literature.
	Law and literature.
	Race in literature.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	African Americans in literature. (OCoLC)fst00799727
	American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
	Citizenship in literature. (OCoLC)fst00861949
	Law and literature. (OCoLC)fst00993913
	Law in literature. (OCoLC)fst00994014
	Race in literature. (OCoLC)fst01086506
	Racism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01086655
	Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
	Slavery in literature. (OCoLC)fst01120515
	Burgerschap.
	Rassen (mens)
	Amerikaans.
	Literaire thema's.
	Gesetzgebung.
	Rassenfrage <Motiv>.
	Literatur.
	Bürgerrecht.
	Schwarze.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Subject	Slavery.
Other Form:	Print version: Crane, Gregg David. Race, citizenship, and law in American literature. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521806844 0521010934 (DLC) 2001037853 (OCoLC)47625306
ISBN	0511041853 (electronic bk.)
	9780511041853 (electronic bk.)
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