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Abolitionist Imagination by Andrew Delbanco (2012, Hardcover)

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Author: Andrew Delbanco. Delbanco's work is placed in conversation with responses from literary scholars and historians. Title: The Abolitionist Imagination. Format: Hardback. Topic: Military History.

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PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674064445

ISBN-139780674064447

eBay Product ID (ePID)121339344

Product Key Features

Book TitleAbolitionist Imagination

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2012

TopicSlavery, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Essays

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, History

AuthorAndrew Delbanco

Book SeriesThe Alexis De Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight20 oz

Item Length7.5 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-038252

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsWith his characteristic eloquence, Andrew Delbanco provides an interpretation of abolitionism, in history and literature, which challenges the received wisdom--and his four critics are up to the challenge. This splendid book demonstrates that the most successful radical movement in American history still retains its power to provoke and enlighten., The lucidity of the prose and the relevance of the topic to today's cultural divides may attract broader audiences., A brilliant, risky, provocative account of the changing historical reputation of abolitionists in America. Delbanco offers a timely take on just why this prototypical American reform movement never goes away as a template, as a useable past, as a story that can be appropriated by all ends of the political spectrum.

Series Volume Number3

Dewey Decimal973.7/114

SynopsisAbolitionists have been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring reformers who hastened the end of slavery. Delbanco sees them as the embodiment of a driving force in American history: the recurrent impulse of an adamant minority to rid the world of outrageous evil., The abolitionists of the mid-nineteenth century have long been painted in extremes--vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the catastrophic bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring and courageous reformers who hastened the end of slavery. But Andrew Delbanco sees abolitionists in a different light, as the embodiment of a driving force in American history: the recurrent impulse of an adamant minority to rid the world of outrageous evil. Delbanco imparts to the reader a sense of what it meant to be a thoughtful citizen in nineteenth-century America, appalled by slavery yet aware of the fragility of the republic and the high cost of radical action. In this light, we can better understand why the fiery vision of the "abolitionist imagination" alarmed such contemporary witnesses as Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne even as they sympathized with the cause. The story of the abolitionists thus becomes both a stirring tale of moral fervor and a cautionary tale of ideological certitude. And it raises the question of when the demand for purifying action is cogent and honorable, and when it is fanatic and irresponsible. Delbanco's work is placed in conversation with responses from literary scholars and historians. These provocative essays bring the past into urgent dialogue with the present, dissecting the power and legacies of a determined movement to bring America's reality into conformity with American ideals.

LC Classification NumberE449.D45 2012