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050	0	0	_aE449 _bS291 A 2014
100	1		_aSchoolman, Martha. _9209774
245	1	0	_aAbolitionist geographies / _cMartha Schoolman.
300			_a228 p.
505	0		_aIntroduction: What Is Abolitionist Geography? -- Emerson's Hemisphere -- August First and the Practice of Disunion -- William Wells Brown's Critical Cosmopolitanism -- Uncle Tom's Cabin's Anti-Expansionism -- The Maroon's Moment, 1856/1861.
520	2		_a"Traditional narratives of the period leading up to the Civil War are invariably framed in geographical terms. The sectional descriptors of the North, South, and West, like the wartime categories of Union, Confederacy, and border states, mean little without reference to a map of the United States. In Abolitionist Geographies, Martha Schoolman contends that antislavery writers consistently refused those standard terms. Through the idiom Schoolman names 'abolitionist geography,' these writers instead expressed their dissenting views about the westward extension of slavery, the intensification of the internal slave trade, and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law by appealing to other anachronistic, partial, or entirely fictional north-south and east-west axes. Abolitionism's West, for instance, rarely reached beyond the Mississippi River, but its East looked to Britain for ideological inspiration, its North habitually traversed the Canadian border, and its South often spanned the geopolitical divide between the United States and the British Caribbean. Schoolman traces this geography of dissent through the work of Martin Delany, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others. Her book explores new relationships between New England transcendentalism and the British West Indies; African-American cosmopolitanism, Britain, and Haiti; sentimental fiction, Ohio, and Liberia; John Brown's Appalachia and circum-Caribbean marronage. These connections allow us to see clearly for the first time abolitionist literature's explicit and intentional investment in geography as an idiom of political critique, by turns liberal and radical, practical and utopian"--
600	1	0	_aDelany, Martin Robison, _d1812-1885 _xCriticism and interpretation. _9209775
600	1	0	_aEmerson, Ralph Waldo, _d1803-1882 _xCriticism and interpretation. _9208557
600	1	0	_aBrown, William Wells, _d1814?-1884 _xCriticism and interpretation. _9209776
600	1	0	_aStowe, Harriet Beecher, _d1811-1896 _xCriticism and interpretation. _9209777
650		0	_aAntislavery movements _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century. _9209493
650		0	_aAbolitionists _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century. _9209778
650		0	_aGeography in literature. _9209779
650		0	_aAntislavery movements in literature. _9209780
650		0	_aAfrican Americans in literature. _9197954
650		0	_aAmerican literature _y19th century _xHistory and criticism. _9183708
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. _9203882
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. _9209781
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography. _9126929
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