Description: Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era, Paperback by Kytle, Ethan J., ISBN 1107426987, ISBN-13 9781107426986, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "On the cusp of the American Civil War, a new generation of reformers, including Theodore Parker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Martin Robison Delany and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, took the lead in the antislavery struggle. Frustrated by political defeats, a more aggressive slave power, and the inability of early abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison to rid the nation of slavery, the New Romantics crafted fresh, often more combative, approaches to the peculiar institution. Contrary to what many scholars have argued, however, they did not reject Romantic reform in the process. Instead, the New Romantics roamed widely through Romantic modes of thought, embracing not only the immediatism and perfectionism pioneered by Garrisonians but alsonew motifs and doctrines, including sentimentalism, self-culture, martial heroism, Romantic racialism, and Manifest Destiny. This book tells the story of how antebellum America's most important intellectual current, Romanticism, shaped the coming and course of the nation's bloodiest--and most revolutionary--conflict"--
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Book Title: Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War
Number of Pages: 314 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Slavery, United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Subjects & Themes / Historical events, American / General, Social Activists, United States / General
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2016
Item Weight: 16.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Ethan J. Kytle
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
