Temperance and cosmopolitanism: African American reformers in the Atlantic world
Introduction : slave travels and the beginnings of a temperate cosmopolitanism -- William Wells Brown and Martin Delany : civil and geographic spaces of temperate cosmopolitanism -- Brown's temperate cosmopolitan "home" : Creole civilization and temperate manners -- George Moses Horto...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2018]
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Africana religions
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African American social reformers
B African American social reformers History 19th century B LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Generals B Temperance in literature B American literature ; African American authors B American literature African American authors History and criticism B History B Criticism, interpretation, etc B Cosmopolitanism in literature B American literature 19th century History and criticism B American literature B United States / 19th Century / HISTORY |
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| Summary: | Introduction : slave travels and the beginnings of a temperate cosmopolitanism -- William Wells Brown and Martin Delany : civil and geographic spaces of temperate cosmopolitanism -- Brown's temperate cosmopolitan "home" : Creole civilization and temperate manners -- George Moses Horton's freedom : a temperate republicanism and a critical cosmopolitanism -- Frances E. W. Harper's Black cosmopolitan Creoles : a temperate transnationalism -- "The quintessence of sanctifying grace" : Amanda Smith's religious experience, freedom, and a temperate cosmopolitanism -- Epilogue : tempering and conjuring the roots of cosmopolitan recovery "A study of select nineteenth-century African American authors and reformers who mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom"--Provided by publisher |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index |
| ISBN: | 0271083093 |