Title Victory of law : the Fourteenth amendment, the Civil War, and American literature, 1852-1867 / Deak Nabers

Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 239 pages) Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Victory of LAW: Melville and Reconstruction -- 2 Shadows of Law: Somerset and the Literature of Abolition -- 3 Constitutional Disobedience: Thoreau, Sumner, and the Transcendental Law of the 1850s -- 4 Legal Sentences: Hawthorne�s Sovereign Performatives and Hermeneutics of Freedom -- 5 John Bingham�s Poetic Constitution -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-234) and index Notes English Print version record Subject United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment SUBJECT Constitution (United States) fast Subject American literature -- 19th century -- Political aspects Antislavery movements in literature. Antislavery movements -- United States -- History Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature -- Political aspects Antislavery movements Antislavery movements in literature Politics and government Rhetoric -- Political aspects SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140422 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2005032109 ISBN 9780801889318 0801889316

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