Victory of law : the Fourteenth amendment, the Civil War, and American literature, 1852-1867
This interdisciplinary study sheds light on the transformative significance of emerging legalist and constitutionalist forms of antislavery thinking on the literature of the 1850s and 1860s and the growing centrality of aesthetic considerations to antebellum American legal theory and practice--the historical terms in which a distinctively American cultural identity was conceived
eBook, English, 2006
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2006