Bøker av Michael T. Gilmore

As the importance of race and gender has become established recently in literary studies, the concept of class has been seen as crude and unnecessary. This study argues for the continuing vitality as well as the energizing problematics of the category of class in literature.

How did slavery and race impact American literature in the 19th century? This book argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers like Frederick Douglass wrestled with the demands for silence and circumspection that accompanied the antebellum fear of disunion and the postwar reconciliation between the North and South.