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The letter and the spirit of nineteenth-century American literature : justice, politics, and theology

"Moving back to the trial of Anne Hutchinson in Puritan Massachusetts and the captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson in order to analyse theo-political signification, The Letter and the Spirit of Nineteenth-Century American Literature provides a new context for examining the politically performative function of language in such texts as The Scarlet Letter, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Waiting for the Verdict."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, ©2005
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 295 pages ; 24 cm
9780773528031, 0773528032
55473514
The justice of sentencing, or how (not) to speak
"A" confession : how to avoid speaking the name of the father
Constituting justice : Unionist-Republican and Confederate-Democratic narratives
The feminine, the Judaic, the Pauline, and the political : Uncle Tom's Cabin and the ethical critique of justice
Exodus politics and the redemption of difference
Rendering justice in The Grandissimes : advocacy and others' voices
Conclusion : Confederate democracy and the non-in-different Constitution