Title Antislavery discourse and nineteenth-century American literature : incendiary pictures / Julie Husband

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 160 pages) : illustrations Contents pt. 1. Central Feminist Abolitionists and the Wage Labor System -- 1. The Emergence of the Family Protection Campaign and Antislavery Sentimentality -- 2. Anticipating Progressive Era Reformers: Lydia Maria Child and the Mothering State -- pt. 2. Adaptations of the Antislavery Family Protection Campaign -- 3. Marketplace Politics in The Scarlet Letter -- 4. The Invisible Hand of the Marketplace: E.D.E.N. Southworth's Southern Reforms -- 5. "The White Slave of the North": Lowell Mill Women and the Evolution of "Free Labor" -- pt. 3. The End of Antislavery Sentimentality -- 6. Frederick Douglass's Post-Civil War Performance of Masculinity Summary This book examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of "free labor" in mid-nineteenth-century America Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century Women abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century Social reformers -- United States -- History -- 19th century Slavery in literature. Protest literature, American -- History and criticism Labor -- United States -- History -- 19th century Industrialization -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century Working class -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- English -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- USA. Slavery & abolition of slavery -- English -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- USA. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery. Literature. Abolitionists Antislavery movements Industrialization -- Social aspects Labor Protest literature, American Slavery in literature Social reformers Women abolitionists Working class -- Social conditions United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2009023185 ISBN 9780230105218 0230105211 9781349383443 1349383449 9786612908743 6612908742

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