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The Powers of Dignity

The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass

By: Nick Bromell

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The Powers of Dignity

The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass

By: Nick Bromell

Nick Bromell examines how Frederick Douglass forged a distinctively black political philosophy out of his experiences as an enslaved and later nominally free man in ways that challenge Anglo-Continental traditions of political thought.

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1478010223

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9781478010227

Tomorrow Never Knows

Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s

By: Nicholas Knowles Bromell

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Tomorrow Never Knows

Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s

By: Nicholas Knowles Bromell

Tomorrow Never Knows takes us back to the primal scene of the 1960s and asks: what happened when young people got high and listened to rock as if it really mattered—as if it offered meaning and sustenance, not just escape and entertainment? What did young people hear in the music of Dylan, Hendrix, or the Beatles? Bromell's pursuit of these questions radically revises our understanding of rock, psychedelics, and their relation to the politics of the 60s, exploring the period's controversial legacy, and the reasons why being "experienced" has been an essential part of American youth culture to the present day.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226075621

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9780226075624

By the Sweat of the Brow

Literature and Labor in Antebellum America

By: Nicholas K. Bromell

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Literature and Labor in Antebellum America

By: Nicholas K. Bromell

The spread of industrialism, the emergence of professionalism, the challenge to slavery - these and other developments fueled an anxious debate about work in antebellum America. In this book, Nicholas K. Bromell discusses the ways in which American writers participated in this cultural contestation of the nature and meaning of work. In chapters on Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Rebecca Harding Davis, Susan Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass, Bromell shows how these writers not only scrutinized work - be it factory labor, agriculture, maternal labor, or slave labor - but also reflected upon its relation to their own work of writing. Bromell argues that American writers generally sensed a deep affinity between the mental labor of writing and such bodily labors as blacksmithing, house building, housework, mothering, field labor, growing beans, and so on. Nevertheless, writers resisted identifying their labor as purely or simply bodily, both because society placed mental and spiritual labor at the top of its scale of values and because the body was so often the site of gender or racial subjugation. Bromell also makes important contributions to three areas of nineteenth-century social history. He probes the period's conflicting ideas of mothers as both spiritual "angels of the house" and ineluctably embodied laborers in the home. Using as an example the exhibitions of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, he discusses the advent of an industrial ideology that sought to devalue the meaning of skilled manual labor. Finally, he suggests that, paradoxically, slaves were sometimes able to find in their labor a mode of self-actualization within slavery. Deftlycombining literary and social history, canonical and noncanonical texts, primary source material and contemporary theory, By the Sweat of the Brow establishes work as an important subject of cultural criticism. At the same time, it contributes to discussions of race, gender, and the body in American literary studies.

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0226075540

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9780226075549

Tomorrow Never Knows

Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s

By: Nicholas Knowles Bromell

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Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s

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The Powers of Dignity

The Powers of Dignity

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Tomorrow Never Knows

By the Sweat of the Brow

By the Sweat of the Brow

Tomorrow Never Knows

Tomorrow Never Knows

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