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- A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War

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Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscience in antebellum America's court of public opinion and shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780674073081
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 288
  • Udgivet:
  • 30. april 2013
  • Størrelse:
  • 163x236x25 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 558 g.
  • 2-3 uger.
  • 3. december 2024

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Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscience in antebellum America's court of public opinion and shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature.

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