Facing the other [electronic resource] : ethical disruption and the American mind / Linda Bolton.
By: Bolton, Linda.
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BookSeries: Horizons in theory and American culture: Publisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2004Description: xi, 209 p.Subject(s): Ethics -- United States -- History -- Sources | Political ethics -- United States -- History -- Sources | Criticism, Textual | Other (Philosophy) | Ethics in literature | Liberty in literature | Justice in literature | United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Sources | United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865 -- Sources | United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865 -- SourcesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 172/.0973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references ( p. 199-204) and index.
Towards confronting "the hatred by the other human" -- Facing alterity : the ethics of conversion in Crevecoeur's Letters from an American farmer -- In the name of "justice and humanity" : Thomas Paine's ethical envisionings of the American Republic -- Standing in the "field of freedom" : Thomas Jefferson and the reverberations of that declaratory promise -- Fugitive poseurs : the native eloquence of Frederick Douglass and Sarah Winnemucca -- In the presence of the great American criminal : John Brown's triumphant failure at Harpers Ferry.
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