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At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature

1999; Modern Humanities Research Association; Volume: 94; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3736026

2222-4319

R. W. Butterfield, John Carlos Rowe,

American and British Literature Analysis

Representative works are interpreted in light of the two great political movements of the nineteenth century: the abolition of slavery and the women's rights movement. By reexamining Emerson, Poe, Melville, Douglass, Walt Whitman, Chopin, and Faulkner and others, Rowe assesses the degree to which major writers' attitudes toward race, class, and gender contribute to specific political reforms in nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture.