Table of Contents: Victory of law :

Main Author:	Nabers, Deak.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Subjects:	American literature > Political aspects. > 19th century Antislavery movements in literature. Antislavery movements > History. > United States Rhetoric > Political aspects > 19th century. > United States > History LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. American literature > Political aspects. Antislavery movements. Politics and government Rhetoric > Political aspects. United States > Politics and government > 19th century. United States.
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Table of Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Victory of LAW: Melville and Reconstruction""; ""2 Shadows of Law: Somerset and the Literature of Abolition""; ""3 Constitutional Disobedience: Thoreau, Sumner, and the Transcendental Law of the 1850s""; ""4 Legal Sentences: Hawthorneâ€?s Sovereign Performatives and Hermeneutics of Freedom""; ""5 John Binghamâ€?s Poetic Constitution""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""