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The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War
Caleb Smith
The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War
Caleb Smith
Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscience in antebellum America’s court of public opinion and shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature.
252 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | USA, January 7, 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9780674073081 |
Publishers | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 163 × 236 × 25 mm · 558 g |
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