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Caleb Smith
Oracle and the Curse [EPUB ebook]
A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War

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Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscience in antebellum America s court of public opinion and shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature.

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Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 288 ● ISBN 9780674075849 ● Utgivare Harvard University Press ● Publicerad 2014 ● Nedladdningsbara 6 gånger ● Valuta EUR ● ID 2655372 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM

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