Democratic Discourses

Democratic Discourses

The Radical Abolition Movement and Antebellum American Literature

by MICHAEL BENNETT

223 pages· 2005· ISBN 9780813535739
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'Democratic' Discourses shows the ways that abolitionist writing shaped a powerful counterculture within a slave-holding society. Drawing on discourses about the body, gender, economics, and aesthetics, this study encourages readers to reconsider the reality and roots of freedoms experienced in the US.

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