Facing the other [electronic resource] : ethical disruption and the American mind / Linda Bolton.
Series: Horizons in theory and American culturePublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2004.Description: xi, 209 pISBN:- 0807129402 (alk. paper)
- 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 -- Sources
- 172/.0973 22
- E302.1 .B65 2004eb
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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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