University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California |
University of California Press, Ltd.
London, England |
| First paperback printing 1997 |
| 1993 by Karen Snchez-Eppler |
| Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data |
Snchez-Eppler, Karen.
Touching liberty: abolition, feminism, and the politics of the body /
Karen Snchez-Eppler.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-520-21234-7 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. American literature19th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. Slav
eryUnited StatesAnti-slavery movementsHistory19th century.
3. Feminism and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th century 4. Poli
tics and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th century. 5. Women and
literatureUnited StatesHistory19th century. 6. Jacobs, Harriet A.
(Harriet Ann), 18131897Political and social views. 7. Dickinson, Emily,
18301886Political and social views. 8. Whitman, Walt, 18191892Polit
ical and social views. 9. Slavery and slaves in literature. 10. Body, Human,
in literature.
I. Title.
PS217.S55S26 1993
810.9'003dc20 92-20377
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| The author gratefully acknowledges permission to reprint two chapters of this book that were previously published elsewhere. Chapter 1 appeared under its own title in Representations 24 (copyright 1988 by the Regents of the University of California) and has been reprinted in The New American Studies, edited by Philip Fisher (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), in The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America, edited by Shirley Samuels (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), and as "Vincoli corporei: le intersezioni retoriche di femminismo e abolizionismo" in Communit: revista di informazione culturale 193/194 (March 1992). Chapter 2 appeared as " 'To Stand Between': A Political Perspective on Whitman's Poetics of Merger and Embodiment" in ELH 56 (copyright 1989 by Johns Hopkins University Press). |
| Emily Dickinson's poetry is reprinted by permission of the publishers and Trustees of Amherst College from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnston (Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University), copyright 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Poetry copyright 1929, 1935 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi; copyright renewed 1957, 1963 by Mary L. Hampson is reprinted by permission of Little, Brown and Company. |
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