Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

AvEthan J. Kytle

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On the cusp of the American Civil War, a new generation of reformers, including Theodore Parker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Robison Delany and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, took the lead in the antislavery struggle. Frustrated by political defeats, a more aggressive Slave Power, and the inability of early abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison to rid the nation of slavery, the New Romantics crafted fresh, often more combative, approaches to the peculiar institution. Contrary to what many scholars have argued, however, they did not reject Romantic reform in the process. Instead, the New Romantics roamed widely through Romantic modes of thought, embracing not only the immediatism and perfectionism pioneered by Garrisonians but also new motifs and doctrines, including sentimentalism, self-culture, martial heroism, Romantic racialism, and Manifest Destiny. This book tells the story of how antebellum America's most important intellectual current, Romanticism, shaped the coming and course of the nation's bloodiest - and most revolutionary - conflict.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-03-10
Mått155 x 230 x 20 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor314
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107426986

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Introduction; 1. The transcendental politics of Theodore Parker; 2. Frederick Douglass, perfectionist self-help, and a constitution for the ages; 3. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the divided heart of Uncle Tom's Cabin; 4. African dreams, American realities: Martin Robison Delany and the emigration question; 5. Thomas Wentworth Higginson's war on slavery; Conclusion: Emancipation Day, 1863; Epilogue: the reconstruction of Romantic reform.

'In this stunningly original work, Ethan J. Kytle uncovers the critical connection between romanticism and the antislavery crusade of the 1850s. Based on a deep reading of archival sources and bristling with fresh insights, Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era reveals how these abolitionists blended the perfectionism of an earlier generation with sentimentalism and martial heroism. Sophisticated and elegantly written, it is a stimulating and altogether absorbing book.' Douglas R. Egerton, author of Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War

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