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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... persons as a result of language . " Sentimentalism " is a literary style and rhetorical construction of language gauged for such an outcome . However , both these terms trace the prior affective condition signified into language that is ...
... persons as a result of language . " Sentimentalism " is a literary style and rhetorical construction of language gauged for such an outcome . However , both these terms trace the prior affective condition signified into language that is ...
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... ( persons , citizens , and states ) together and as the forging of a republican nation . The Consti- tution is therefore not contract but creation . However , while the people create the nation in language , the nation then reconstitutes ...
... ( persons , citizens , and states ) together and as the forging of a republican nation . The Consti- tution is therefore not contract but creation . However , while the people create the nation in language , the nation then reconstitutes ...
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... person , then if persons in the United States are to be the nation's citizens , they need to pledge allegiance to that character . To be a citizen is to accept that one is a participant in the character of the nation and must not just ...
... person , then if persons in the United States are to be the nation's citizens , they need to pledge allegiance to that character . To be a citizen is to accept that one is a participant in the character of the nation and must not just ...
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... persons for cultural cohesion through national identification . And national identification is ultimately policed by law and perhaps more powerfully by interpellation , even if it is promoted as " volun- tary " self - assimilation ...
... persons for cultural cohesion through national identification . And national identification is ultimately policed by law and perhaps more powerfully by interpellation , even if it is promoted as " volun- tary " self - assimilation ...
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... Persons are sovereign in themselves , and their decisions to unite into groups must be respected , including their decision to unite in and as states of America . Citizens are those who agree with the procedures of democracy and justice ...
... Persons are sovereign in themselves , and their decisions to unite into groups must be respected , including their decision to unite in and as states of America . Citizens are those who agree with the procedures of democracy and justice ...
Table des matières
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26 | |
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