Politics And Skepticism In Antebellum American Literature (Cambridge Studies In American Literature And Culture, Series Number 169)

This volume explores the way in which antebellum American writers perceived the political implications of modern philosophical skepticism. Dominic Mastroianni offers new readings of six major American authors - Emerson, Melville, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Douglass and Jacobs - and illumines their thinking about revolution, civil war, and the world's susceptibility to transformation.

• • Author: Dominic Mastroianni
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Oct 23, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 232 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 110707617X
• • ISBN-13: 9781107076174