Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the figure a “person” makes: on the aesthetics of liberalism
- 1 Slaves and persons
- 2 Family values and racial essentialism in Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 3 Eva's hair and the sentiments of race
- 4 A is for Anything: US liberalism and the making of The Scarlet Letter
- 5 The art of discrimination: The Marble Faun, “Chiefly About War Matters,” and the aesthetics of anti-black racism
- 6 Freedom, ethics, and the necessity of persons: Frederick Douglass and the scene of resistance
- Notes
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the figure a “person” makes: on the aesthetics of liberalism
- 1 Slaves and persons
- 2 Family values and racial essentialism in Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 3 Eva's hair and the sentiments of race
- 4 A is for Anything: US liberalism and the making of The Scarlet Letter
- 5 The art of discrimination: The Marble Faun, “Chiefly About War Matters,” and the aesthetics of anti-black racism
- 6 Freedom, ethics, and the necessity of persons: Frederick Douglass and the scene of resistance
- Notes
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006