Letter and the Spirit of Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Justice, Politics, TheologyMoving back to the trial of Anne Hutchinson in Puritan Massachusetts and the captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson in order to analyse theo-political signification, Loebel provides a new context for examining the politically performative function of language in such texts as "The Scarlet Letter," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and "Waiting for the Verdict." He also argues, however, that a specific theo-logic manifests itself in the political rhetoric of the nation, such that the afterlife of the "New Jerusalem" resonates not just in the "Blessings of Liberty" enshrined in the Constitution but also in the shift from a religious understanding of union with Jesus to that of the Union of States as a nation. Loebel compares unionist and confederate discourse, opening up new ways of theorising representation as a political, theological, legal, and literary issue that has continued currency both in twentieth-century literature and in the political discourse of America's global vision, such as the "axis of evil" and the "new world order." Anyone interested in American literature and culture will view the relationship between ethics and justice differently after reading this book. |
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... enables their production . Annunciation opens lan- guage as justice within and as that which just representation can per- form the relation to the other . As Levinas has detailed , justice is an inter - position that comes to be because ...
... enables their production . Annunciation opens lan- guage as justice within and as that which just representation can per- form the relation to the other . As Levinas has detailed , justice is an inter - position that comes to be because ...
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... AMERICA As Stowe was attempting to write into the politics of justice , the explo- ration of political discourses enables another approach to this issue of the language of justice . Here , too , representation 7 Introduction.
... AMERICA As Stowe was attempting to write into the politics of justice , the explo- ration of political discourses enables another approach to this issue of the language of justice . Here , too , representation 7 Introduction.
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... enable America continuously to come into being its procedural republican status – is still very much a problem . Just as the New Jerusalem is here in possibility and always " not yet , " so too is America not yet here as a realized ...
... enable America continuously to come into being its procedural republican status – is still very much a problem . Just as the New Jerusalem is here in possibility and always " not yet , " so too is America not yet here as a realized ...
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... enables even Being as such , and consequently the possibility of thinking Being , which is the Creator and creation as such . Spoken into being in an act of language that en- ables the ideal of human language from which it will be ...
... enables even Being as such , and consequently the possibility of thinking Being , which is the Creator and creation as such . Spoken into being in an act of language that en- ables the ideal of human language from which it will be ...
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... enables such human strivings at all . In order to theorize the difficulty of language as manifestation as it annunciates itself into politics and theology in America , I begin with the Examination and Trial of Anne Hutchinson . " The ...
... enables such human strivings at all . In order to theorize the difficulty of language as manifestation as it annunciates itself into politics and theology in America , I begin with the Examination and Trial of Anne Hutchinson . " The ...
Contents
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How to Avoid Speaking the Name of the Father | 62 |
UnionistRepublican and ConfederateDemocratic Narratives | 99 |
Uncle Toms Cabin and the Ethical Critique of Justice | 127 |
5 Exodus Politics and the Redemption of Difference | 172 |
Advocacy and Others Voices | 217 |
Confederate Democracy and the NonInDifferent Constitution | 245 |
Notes | 257 |
Works Cited | 273 |
Index | 289 |
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