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Focusing on a range of important antislavery figures, including David Walker, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, Apocalyptic Sent
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Sentimentalism is usually studied through US-British relations after the American Revolution or in connection to national reforms like the abolitionist movement
Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature
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Authors: John Hay
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This book examines the widespread use of postapocalyptic fantasies in American literary texts in the early nineteenth century.
Heaven's Interpreters
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In Heaven's Interpreters, Ashley Reed reveals how nineteenth-century American women writers transformed the public sphere by using the imaginative power of fict
American Niceness
Language: en
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraphs -- Contents -- Introduction: American Niceness and the Democratic Personality -- 1. Indian Giving an