Letter and the Spirit of Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Justice, Politics, TheologyMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 12 janv. 2005 - 304 pages 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, Loebel 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." He also argues, however, that a specific theo-logic manifests itself in the political rhetoric of the nation, such that the afterlife of the "New Jerusalem" resonates not just in the "Blessings of Liberty" enshrined in the Constitution but also in the shift from a religious understanding of union with Jesus to that of the Union of States as a nation. Loebel compares unionist and confederate discourse, opening up new ways of theorising representation as a political, theological, legal, and literary issue that has continued currency both in twentieth-century literature and in the political discourse of America's global vision, such as the "axis of evil" and the "new world order." Anyone interested in American literature and culture will view the relationship between ethics and justice differently after reading this book. |
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... interest and posterity and even , to some extent , the significance of justices ' dissenting opinions , the majority ... interests de- cides what is just for the minority others , who must then cater to and work within these terms . I ...
... interest and posterity and even , to some extent , the significance of justices ' dissenting opinions , the majority ... interests de- cides what is just for the minority others , who must then cater to and work within these terms . I ...
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... interest is in what diverse expressions are able to say about America , which a politically controlled discourse cannot or refuses to articulate , given the conception of language it employs . In this sense , my task is akin to that of ...
... interest is in what diverse expressions are able to say about America , which a politically controlled discourse cannot or refuses to articulate , given the conception of language it employs . In this sense , my task is akin to that of ...
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... interest is in tracking how and in what kind of discursive construction power manifests itself within the confines of belief , where in this theocracy , belief cannot be thought as only a theological term , because theology is always ...
... interest is in tracking how and in what kind of discursive construction power manifests itself within the confines of belief , where in this theocracy , belief cannot be thought as only a theological term , because theology is always ...
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... representation appropriate to the definition of American democracy in which the different interests and identities of Americans can be realized and united together in 20 The Letter and the Spirit of 19th - Century American Literature.
... representation appropriate to the definition of American democracy in which the different interests and identities of Americans can be realized and united together in 20 The Letter and the Spirit of 19th - Century American Literature.
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... interests as the good . However , as is well known , in the antebellum period the Constitution allowed the enslave- ment of African Americans as a legitimate interest in the South , creat- ing the controversy over how realization of ...
... interests as the good . However , as is well known , in the antebellum period the Constitution allowed the enslave- ment of African Americans as a legitimate interest in the South , creat- ing the controversy over how realization of ...
Table des matières
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How to Avoid Speaking the Name of the Father | 62 |
UnionistRepublican and ConfederateDemocratic Narratives | 99 |
Uncle Toms Cabin and the Ethical Critique of Justice | 127 |
5 Exodus Politics and the Redemption of Difference | 172 |
Advocacy and Others Voices | 217 |
Confederate Democracy and the NonInDifferent Constitution | 245 |
Notes | 257 |
Works Cited | 273 |
Index | 289 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
according African American alterity Anne Hutchinson annunciation Antinomian argue articulated becomes biblical body Cable Calvin Ellis Stowe captivity Christ Christian confederate confederate-democratic congregationalism Constitution construction context conversion covenant Creoles cultural democracy difference Dimmesdale discourse divine emancipation enables equality ethical Exodus faith father feminine figure Frowenfeld function God's Grandissimes H.B. Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe Hebrew Bible Hester human language identity individual interpretation issues Jesus Jews judgment justice Levinas Liberia liberty logic magistrates male Mary Rowlandson masculinity material meaning ment ministers narrative nation one's particular performance persons plurality political position possibility promote Puritan question racial radical reading Reconstruction redemption relation rendered represent representation revelation rhetoric Rowlandson Scarlet Letter sense sentiment signifies slavery slaves social Sojourner Truth soul speak speech spirit Stowe's structure suggests temporal theological thing tion translation Uncle Tom's Cabin understanding union unionist unionist-republican voice woman women word writing