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Schoolman, Martha Elizabeth.

American abolitionist geographies: Literature and the politics of place, 1840--1861 (Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wells Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thomas Redpath, Thomas Wentworth Higginson).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	American abolitionist geographies: Literature and the politics of place, 1840--1861 (Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wells Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thomas Redpath, Thomas Wentworth Higginson).
Author:	Schoolman, Martha Elizabeth.
Description:	199 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2219.
Notes:	Supervisor: Nancy Bentley.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-06A.
Subject:	Literature, American.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3179806
ISBN:	9780542200472

American abolitionist geographies: Literature and the politics of place, 1840--1861 (Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wells Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thomas Redpath, Thomas Wentworth Higginson).
Schoolman, Martha Elizabeth.

American abolitionist geographies: Literature and the politics of place, 1840--1861 (Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wells Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thomas Redpath, Thomas Wentworth Higginson). - 199 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2219.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2005.

American Abolitionist Geographies argues that literary abolition was a movement that challenged the geographic integrity of the American nation. As a category of literary texts emerging in dialogue with the most active years of the American abolitionist movement (1840--1861), I argue that literary abolition accentuated the anti-national and counter-national investments of abolitionism. In the years 1840--1850, literary abolitionism engaged with the persons, locales and texts of the international (and particularly British) antislavery movement. In the years between 1850 and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, literary abolitionism turned geographically inward. During this latter period, literary abolitionism criticized the expansionist tendencies of the state by focusing on the insuperability of regional differences and on the hidden resistant histories within regions. Literary abolitionism, I conclude, made possible a surprising range and complexity of geographic reference that has gone unrecognized by Americanist critics' persistently nationalist reading strategies.

ISBN: 9780542200472Subjects--Topical Terms:

212571
Literature, American.

American abolitionist geographies: Literature and the politics of place, 1840--1861 (Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wells Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thomas Redpath, Thomas Wentworth Higginson).
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520 # $a Chapter 1 begins by examining the centrality of both Garrisonian abolitionism and West Indian emancipation to Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous 1841 essay, "Self-Reliance." The chapter goes on to analyze how Emerson's 1844 "Address on the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies" both engages with the rhetoric of abolitionism and proposes a novel ethics of non-mastery to match the address's politics. Chapter 2 explores William Wells Brown's changing attitudes toward the British West Indies as both reformist exemplum and possible destination for fugitives displaced by the Fugitive Slave Law. Brown's dialectical engagement with British reformism, the chapter argues, conditioned his shift toward a more revolutionary politics. Chapter 3 offers a reassessment of Harriet Beecher Stowe's politics of space in Uncle Tom's Cabin by arguing against a critical consensus that the novel endorses the ideology of manifest destiny. Chapter 4 examines Stowe's Dred, James Redpath's The Roving Editor, and multiple works by Thomas Wentworth Higginson to document a broad shift in the literature of late abolitionism toward the maroon warrior as an object of radical identification and the maroon community as a place of refuge.
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