{"product_id":"victory-of-law-deak-nabers-9780801883507","title":"Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852-1867","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eVictory of Law\u003c\/i\u003e, Deak Nabers examines developing ideas about the nature of law as reflected in literary and political writing before, during, and after the American Civil War. Nabers traces the evolution of antislavery thought from its pre-war opposition to the constitutional order of the young nation to its ultimate elevation of the U.S. Constitution as an expression of the ideal of justice--an ideal embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNabers shows how the intellectual history of the Fourteenth Amendment was rooted in literary sources--including Herman Melville's \u003ci\u003eBattle-Pieces\u003c\/i\u003e, Harriet Beecher Stowe's \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e, and William Wells Brown's \u003ci\u003eClotel\u003c\/i\u003e--as well as in legal texts such as \u003ci\u003eSomerset v. Stewart, Dred Scott v. Sandford, \u003c\/i\u003e and Charles Sumner's \"Freedom National\" address. Not only were prominent writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Frederick Douglass instrumental in remapping the relations between law and freedom, but figures like Sumner and John Bingham helped develop a systematic antislavery reading of the Constitution which established literary texts as sources for legal authority. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis interdisciplinary study sheds light on the transformative significance of emerging legalist and constitutionalist forms of antislavery thinking on the literature of the 1850s and 1860s and the growing centrality of aesthetic considerations to antebellum American legal theory and practice--the historical terms in which a distinctively American cultural identity was conceived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deak Nabers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801883504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801883507\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.30w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2006 pg. 304","brand":"Deak Nabers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48748342968575,"sku":"9780801883507","price":56.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/victory-of-law-deak-nabers-9780801883507","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}