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Author:

Henry, Katherine, 1956-

Title:

Liberalism and the culture of security : the nineteenth-century rhetoric of reform / Katherine Henry.

Publisher:

University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiv, 213 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--United States--History--19th century.
Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
Liberalism in literature.
Liberalism--United States--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: the rhetoric of protection -- Declarations of independence, claims of injury -- Unmasking slavery: Angelina Grimké's rhetoric of exposure -- Melting into speech: Frances E. W. Harper and the citizenship of the heart -- The eloquent girl: liberal publicity and unprotected privacy in Henry James's The Bostonians.

ISBN:

081738510X (electronic)
9780817385101 (electronic)
0817317228 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780817317225 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)642684316

LCCN:

2010025036

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)