Cross-racial class protest in antebellum American literature [electronic resource] / Timothy Helwig.
2020
PS217.W66 H37 2020
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Title
Cross-racial class protest in antebellum American literature [electronic resource] / Timothy Helwig.
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9781613767429 (electronic book)
1613767420 (electronic book)
9781625344960
1625344961
9781625344977
162534497X
1613767420 (electronic book)
9781625344960
1625344961
9781625344977
162534497X
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Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]
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English
Description
1 online resource (x, 217 pages) : illustrations.
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PS217.W66 H37 2020
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810.9/355
Summary
"Historians have long claimed that the antebellum white working class viewed blacks, both free and slave, not as allies but enemies. While it is true that racial and ethnic strife among northern workers prevented an effective labor movement from materializing in America prior to the Civil War, Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature demonstrates that a considerable subset of white and black writers were able to imagine cross-racial solidarity in the sensation novels and serial fiction, slave narratives, autobiographies, speeches, and newspaper editorials that they penned. Timothy Helwig analyzes the shared strategies of class protest in popular and canonical texts from a range of antebellum white and black American authors, including George Lippard, Ned Buntline, Harry Hazel, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Frank J. Webb. This pathbreaking study offers original perspectives on racial representations in antebellum American print culture and provides a new understanding of black and white authors' strivings for socioeconomic justice across racial lines in the years leading up to the Civil War" Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Black and White Artisan Heroes
The Class Accents of Anti-Slavery Reform
The Cross-Racial Appeal of Nativism
Class-Accented Sensationalism in the Black and Popular Presses
Coda.
The Class Accents of Anti-Slavery Reform
The Cross-Racial Appeal of Nativism
Class-Accented Sensationalism in the Black and Popular Presses
Coda.