John T. Matthews Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris 9780820356709

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Автор: John T. Matthews
Название: Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris
ISBN: 9780820356709
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: Общие вопросы

Литературоведение: с 1800 до 1900 г.

Литературоведение: художественная литература, романисты и прозаики

Литературные спутники (справочники), книжные обзоры и руководства

ISBN-10: 0820356700
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 156
Вес: 0.35 кг.
Дата издания: 30.04.2020
Серия: Mercer university lamar memorial lectures series
Язык: English
Размер: 216 x 140 x 13
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Literary companions, book reviews & guides,Literary studies: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Подзаголовок: Slave capitalism in poe, hawthorne, and joel chandler harris
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: For as long as the United States owed its prosperity to a New World plantation complex, from colonial settlement until well into the twentieth century, the toxic practices associated with its permutations stimulated imaginary solutions to the contradiction with the nation’s enlightenment ideals and republican ideology. Ideals of liberty, democracy, and individualism could not be separated from a history of forcible coercion, oligarchic power, and state-protected economic opportunism. While recent historical scholarship about the relation of capitalism to slavery explores the depths at which U.S. ascension was indebted to global plantation slave economies, John T. Matthews probes how exemplary works of literature represented the determination to deny the open secret of a national atrocity. Difficult truths were hidden in plain sight, allowing beholders at once to recognize and disavow knowledge they would not act on. What were the habits of mind that enabled free Americans to acknowledge what was intolerable yet act as if they did not? In what ways did non-slave-owning Americans imagine a relation to slavery that both admitted its iniquity and accepted its benefits? How did the reconfiguration of the plantation system after the Civil War elicit new literary forms for dealing with its perpetuation of racial injustice, expropriation of labor, and exploitation for profit of the land? Hidden in Plain Sight examines signal nineteenth-century works by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Joel Chandler Harris to show how writers portrayed a nation founded on the unseen seen of slavery’s capitalism.

Hidden in Plain Sight: Slave Capitalism in Poe, Hawthorne, and Joel Chandler Harris, John T. Matthews