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Author:

Stewart, Carole Lynn, author.

Title:

Temperance and cosmopolitanism : African American reformers in the Atlantic world / Carole Lynn Stewart.

Publisher:

The Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

x, 219 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Cosmopolitanism in literature.
Temperance in literature.
African American social reformers--History--19th century.
African American social reformers.
American literature.
American literature--African American authors.
Cosmopolitanism in literature.
Temperance in literature.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : slave travels and the beginnings of a temperate cosmopolitanism -- William Wells Brown and Martin Delany : civil and geographic spaces of temperate cosmopolitanism -- Brown's temperate cosmopolitan "home" : Creole civilization and temperate manners -- George Moses Horton's freedom : a temperate republicanism and a critical cosmopolitanism -- Frances E. W. Harper's Black cosmopolitan Creoles : a temperate transnationalism -- "The quintessence of sanctifying grace" : Amanda Smith's religious experience, freedom, and a temperate cosmopolitanism -- Epilogue : tempering and conjuring the roots of cosmopolitan recovery.

Summary:

"A study of select nineteenth-century African American authors and reformers who mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Africana religions

ISBN:

0271082038
9780271082035

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1034615211

LCCN:

2018023205

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)