Kevin Pelletier

Gebundenes Buch

Apocalyptic Sentimentalism

Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature

Beschreibung

Focusing on a range of important antislavery figures, including David Walker, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism illustrates how antislavery discourse worked to redefine violence and vengeance as the ultimate expression of love and sympathy. At the same time, these warnings of apocalyptic retribution enabled antislavery writers to express, albeit indirectly, fantasies of brutal violence against slaveholders.

Autor

KEVIN PELLETIER is an associate professor of English at the University of Richmond. His work has been published in African American Review, Cultural Critique, and LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Georgia Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9780820339481
• ISBN-10: 0820339482
• Artikelnr.: 40789012