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OverviewHow did slavery and race impact American literature in the nineteenth century? In this ambitious book, Michael T. Gilmore argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Crane wrestled with the demands for silence and circumspection that accompanied the antebellum fear of disunion and the postwar reconciliation between the North and South. Proposing a radical new interpretation of nineteenth-century American literature, The War on Words examines struggles over permissible and impermissible utterance in works ranging from Thoreau's Civil Disobedience to Henry James' The Bostonians . Combining historical knowledge with groundbreaking readings of some of the classic texts of the American past, The War on Words places Lincoln's Cooper Union address in the same constellation as Margaret Fuller's feminism and Thomas Dixon's defense of lynching. Arguing that slavery and race exerted coercive pressure on freedom of expression, Gilmore offers here a transformative study that alters our understanding of nineteenth-century literary culture and its fraught engagement with the right to speak. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael T. GilmorePublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226294131ISBN 10: 0226294137 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 15 July 2010 Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Available from one of our local or international suppliers.  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsDramatically interdisciplinary, The War on Words gives us a new vision of periodicity and offers vital new readings of canonical works in nineteenth-century American literature. Gilmore's book is as deeply learned as it is creative. - Robert A. Ferguson, Columbia University Author InformationMichael T. Gilmore is the Paul Prosswimmer Professor of American Literature at Brandeis University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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