The War on Words : Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature

Name: The War on Words
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226294131
Price: 14400 KES
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ISBN: 9780226294131

by Michael T. Gilmore

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0226294137

ISBN-13 9780226294131

Publisher The University of Chicago Press

Imprint University of Chicago Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 30th, 2010

Print length 344 Pages

Weight 596 grams

Dimensions 23.50 x 16.20 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

KSh 14,400.00

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How did slavery and race impact American literature in the 19th century? This book argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers like Frederick Douglass wrestled with the demands for silence and circumspection that accompanied the antebellum fear of disunion and the postwar reconciliation between the North and South.

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