Politics and Skepticism in Antebellum American Literature - Dominic Mastroianni - Paperback Bog - Cambridge University Press - 2016 - Engelsk -
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Description
This volume explores the way in which antebellum American writers perceived the political implications of modern philosophical skepticism. Dominic Mastroianni offers new readings of six major American authors - Emerson, Melville, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Douglass and Jacobs - and illumines their thinking about revolution, civil war, and the world's susceptibility to transformation.
