{"product_id":"righteous-violence-revolution-slavery-and-the-american-renaissance-paperback","title":"Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLarry J. Reynolds\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRighteous Violence\u003c\/i\u003e examines the struggles with the violence of slavery and revolution that engaged the imaginations of seven nineteenth-century American writers--Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese 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 Fuller's European dispatches, Emerson's political lectures, Douglass's novella \u003ci\u003eThe Heroic Slave\u003c\/i\u003e, Thoreau's \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e, Alcott's\u003ci\u003e Moods\u003c\/i\u003e, Hawthorne's late unfinished romances, and Melville's\u003ci\u003e Billy Budd\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLARRY J. REYNOLDS is a Distinguished Professor of English and the Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A\u0026amp;M University. He is author or editor of eight previous books including \u003ci\u003eDevils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEuropean Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52723986039091,"sku":"9780820341408","price":66.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Il6Xh3szlc9780820341408.webp?v=1763679604","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/righteous-violence-revolution-slavery-and-the-american-renaissance-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}