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9780472116690 | Univ of Michigan Pr, October 30, 2008, cover price $60.00
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9780472034338 | Reprint edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, July 22, 2010), cover price $36.00
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9780300042429 | Yale Univ Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $56.00
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9780195124132 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 19, 2001, cover price $115.00
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9780195124149 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 19, 2001, cover price $56.00
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9780805774054 | Twayne Pub, March 1, 1984, cover price $22.95
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9780691009940 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $62.50
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9780691009957 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 6, 2000, cover price $43.95
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9780691069906 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $72.50
Righteous Violence examines the struggles with the violence of slavery and revolution that engaged the imaginations of seven nineteenth-century American writersâMargaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.These authors responded not only to the state terror of slavery and the Civil War but also to more problematic violent acts, including unlawful revolts, insurrections, riots, and strikes that resulted in bloodshed and death. Rather than position these writers for or against the struggle for liberty, Larry J. Reynolds examines the profoundly contingent and morally complex perspectives of each author. Tracing the shifting and troubled moral arguments in their work, Reynolds shows that these writers, though committed to peace and civil order, at times succumbed to bloodlust, even while they expressed ambivalence about the very violence they approved. For many of these authors, the figure of John Brown loomed large as an influence and a challenge. Reynolds examines key works such as Fullerâs European dispatches, Emersonâs political lectures, Douglassâs novella The Heroic Slave, Thoreauâs Walden, Alcottâs Moods, Hawthorneâs late unfinished romances, and Melvilleâs Billy Budd.In addition to demonstrating the centrality of righteous violence to the American Renaissance, this study deepens and complicates our understanding of political violence beyond the dichotomies of revolution and murder, liberty and oppression, good and evil.
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9780820328256 | Univ of Georgia Pr, December 1, 2011, cover price $74.95
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9780820341408 | Univ of Georgia Pr, December 1, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Righteous Violence examines the struggles with the violence of slavery and revolution that engaged the imaginations of seven nineteenth-century American writersâMargaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.
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9780803965591 | Revised edition (Corwin Pr, January 31, 1997), cover price $70.95
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9780803965607 | Revised edition (Corwin Pr, January 31, 1997), cover price $36.95
Margaret Fuller - journalist, critic, radical feminist, and political activist - travelled in Europe between 1846 and 1850 as a foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune. Her letters from England, France, and Italy, which began as engaging travel sketches, soon became moving accounts of the most widespread revolutionary upheaval within modern history. These dispatches are now reproduced in their entirety for the first time. Fuller met important political figures wherever she travelled, including those who became leaders in the revolutions, and she actively allied herself with the republican cause. Her letters describe how from her apartment in Rome she saw the November 1848 attack on the Quirinal Palace, which precipitated the Pope's flight from the city and the establishment of the Roman Republic headed by her friend Giuseppe Mazzini; how she and the Romans (who included her lover Giovanni Ossoli, a captain in the Civic guard) suffered through the June 1849 siege and bombardment of Rome by the French army sent to restore the Pope; and how as director of a hospital on Tiber Island, she nursed the wounded who fell in the defense of the city. The dispatches, edited and annotated by Larry J. Reynolds and Susan Belasco Smith, are introduced by an essay explaining the historical and professional context in which the letters were written.
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9780300050387 | Yale Univ Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Margaret Fuller - journalist, critic, radical feminist, and political activist - travelled in Europe between 1846 and 1850 as a foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune.
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9780300105605 | Yale Univ Pr, January 31, 1992, cover price $34.00
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9780393971576 | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1997, cover price $24.15
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