Imitation nation: blackface minstrelsy and the making of African American selfhood in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and blackface minstrelsy are compared to show that both shaped black and white American identities and national tensions, and expressed American culture and racist stereotypes. It is suggested that both are culturally identical representations where the African Americans imitate and threaten white American selfhood and vice versa.

Public affairs, Social aspects, African Americans, Racism, United States history, Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Black-white relations, Uncle Tom's Cabin (Novel)

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At home in England, or projecting liberal citizenship in Moll Flanders

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Defoe, a novelist projects a rudimentary version of a rights-based, non-economic, and non-ideological liberal citizenship in Moll Flanders. Such citizenship is identified as fundamentally resembling the model that John Rawls has offered in his 'Political Liberalism'.

Defoe, Daniel

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"New forms for our new sensations": woolf and the lesson of torts

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The different responses to injuries in order to identify the sensibility involved in the experiences of pain and catastrophe are explored. Austen's defense of the way the novel gathers new, literal momentum after the First World War is described.

Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey (Novel)

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