附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Absolute Poe; Chapter 2 "Lord, it's so hard to be good": affect and agency in Stowe; Chapter 3 Taking care of the philosophy: Douglass's commonsense; Chapter 4 Melville and the state of war; Chapter 5 Toward a transcendental politics: Emerson's second thoughts; Epilogue: An unfinished and not unhappy ending; Index.
摘要:Maurice Lee demonstrates how the slavery crisis became a crisis of philosophy. Authors including Poe, Stowe, Douglass, Melville, and Emerson tried - and failed - to find rational solutions to the slavery conflict. Drawing on antebellum moral philosophy, political theory, and metaphysics, Lee brings a fresh perspective to the literature of slavery.
