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Shades of green

visions of nature in the literature of American slavery, 1770-1860

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An edition of Shades of green (2008)

Shades of green

visions of nature in the literature of American slavery, 1770-1860

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English
Pages
348

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Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770-1860
May 15, 2011, University of Georgia Press
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Cover of: Shades of green
Shades of green: visions of nature in the literature of American slavery, 1770-1860
2008, University of Georgia Press
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Table of Contents

Nature, civilization, and the progress of antislavery philosophy
Natural science in early antislavery thought
Natural aesthetics in early antislavery literature
Narrative, temporality, and the international traveler
Crèvecoeur's natural contract
Olaudah Equiano and the paradox of history
Natural evil and human development
The problem of theodicy
Antebellum natural science
The natural law of free development
Nations of blood
The separatist impulse, from David Walker to Martin Delany
Of men and mollusks: Emerson's providential biology
Race in the landscape
Pastoral, race, and the visual imagination
Toward an African American georgic
Coda: antislavery pictorialism
Revisiting, reliving, reforming
The geography of the slave narrative
From the garden to the swamp: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Oxen and sweet potatoes: Douglass on the land
Epilogue: shadows of green.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Athens

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/355
Library of Congress
PS186 F56 2008, PS186 .F56 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
348

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL19520353M
Internet Archive
shadesofgreenvis0000fins
ISBN 10
0820328650
ISBN 13
9780820328652
LCCN
2008010916
OCLC/WorldCat
213375869
Library Thing
6464179
Goodreads
5551796

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