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Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era
Ethan J. Kytle
出版Cambridge University Press, 2014-08-11
主題Biography & Autobiography / Social ActivistsHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)History / Social HistoryLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Historical EventsSocial Science / Slavery
ISBN11070745929781107074590
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VQAPBAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋On the cusp of the American Civil War, a new generation of reformers, including Theodore Parker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Robison Delany, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, took the lead in the antislavery struggle. Frustrated by political defeats, a more aggressive Slave Power, and the inability of early abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison to rid the nation of slavery, the New Romantics crafted fresh, often more combative approaches to the peculiar institution. Contrary to what many scholars have argued, however, they did not reject romantic reform in the process. Instead, the New Romantics roamed widely through romantic modes of thought, embracing not only the immediatism and perfectionism pioneered by Garrisonians but also new motifs and doctrines, including sentimentalism, self-culture, martial heroism, romantic racialism, and Manifest Destiny. This book tells the story of how antebellum America's most important intellectual current, romanticism, shaped the coming and course of the nation's bloodiest - and most revolutionary - conflict.