The letter and the spirit of nineteenth-century American literature : justice, politics, and theology / Thomas Loebel.

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Loebel, Thomas, 1965-

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9780773572317
0773572317

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Letter and the spirit of nineteenth-century American literature.DDC classification:

810.9/3554

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PS217.L37 L64 2005eb

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Contents:

The justice of sentencing, or how (not) to speak -- "A" confession : how to avoid speaking the name of the father -- Constituting justice : Unionist-Republican and Confederate-Democratic narratives -- The feminine, the Judaic, the Pauline, and the political : Uncle Tom's Cabin and the ethical critique of justice -- Exodus politics and the redemption of difference -- Rendering justice in The Grandissimes : advocacy and others' voices -- Conclusion : Confederate democracy and the non-in-different Constitution.

Summary: "Moving back to the trial of Anne Hutchinson in Puritan Massachusetts and the captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson in order to analyse theo-political signification, The Letter and the Spirit of Nineteenth-Century American Literature provides a new context for examining the politically performative function of language in such texts as The Scarlet Letter, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Waiting for the Verdict."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-287) and index.

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"Moving back to the trial of Anne Hutchinson in Puritan Massachusetts and the captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson in order to analyse theo-political signification, The Letter and the Spirit of Nineteenth-Century American Literature provides a new context for examining the politically performative function of language in such texts as The Scarlet Letter, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Waiting for the Verdict."--Jacket.

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