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Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature
University of Massachusetts Press, 2020 Cloth: 978-1-62534-496-0 | Paper: 978-1-62534-497-7 | eISBN: 978-1-61376-743-6 Library of Congress Classification PS217.W66H37 2020 Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9355
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Historians have long claimed that the antebellum white working class viewed blacks, both free and enslaved, not as allies but enemies. While it is true that racial and ethnic strife among northern workers prevented an effective labor movement from materializing in America prior to the Civil War, Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature demonstrates that a considerable subset of white and black writers were able to imagine cross-racial solidarity in the sensation novels and serial fiction, slave narratives, autobiographies, speeches, and newspaper editorials that they penned. Timothy Helwig analyzes the shared strategies of class protest in popular and canonical texts from a range of antebellum white and black American authors, including George Lippard, Ned Buntline, Harry Hazel, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Frank J. Webb. This pathbreaking study offers original perspectives on racial representations in antebellum American print culture and provides a new understanding of black and white authors' strivings for socioeconomic justice across racial lines in the years leading up to the Civil War. See other books on: African Americans in literature | Race relations in literature | Social Classes & Economic Disparity | Social classes in literature | Working class in literature See other titles from University of Massachusetts Press |
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Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Massachusetts Press, 2020
Cloth: 978-1-62534-496-0
Paper: 978-1-62534-497-7
eISBN: 978-1-61376-743-6
Cloth: 978-1-62534-496-0
Paper: 978-1-62534-497-7
eISBN: 978-1-61376-743-6
Historians have long claimed that the antebellum white working class viewed blacks, both free and enslaved, not as allies but enemies. While it is true that racial and ethnic strife among northern workers prevented an effective labor movement from materializing in America prior to the Civil War, Cross-Racial Class Protest in Antebellum American Literature demonstrates that a considerable subset of white and black writers were able to imagine cross-racial solidarity in the sensation novels and serial fiction, slave narratives, autobiographies, speeches, and newspaper editorials that they penned.
Timothy Helwig analyzes the shared strategies of class protest in popular and canonical texts from a range of antebellum white and black American authors, including George Lippard, Ned Buntline, Harry Hazel, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Frank J. Webb. This pathbreaking study offers original perspectives on racial representations in antebellum American print culture and provides a new understanding of black and white authors' strivings for socioeconomic justice across racial lines in the years leading up to the Civil War.
Timothy Helwig analyzes the shared strategies of class protest in popular and canonical texts from a range of antebellum white and black American authors, including George Lippard, Ned Buntline, Harry Hazel, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Frank J. Webb. This pathbreaking study offers original perspectives on racial representations in antebellum American print culture and provides a new understanding of black and white authors' strivings for socioeconomic justice across racial lines in the years leading up to the Civil War.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
