02318nam a2200433 a 4500 ebr10408472 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 030930s2004 lau sb s001 0 eng 0807129402 (alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)712992743 n-us--- E302.1 .B65 2004eb 172/.0973 22 Bolton, Linda, 1955- Facing the other [electronic resource] : ethical disruption and the American mind / Linda Bolton. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2004. xi, 209 p. Horizons in theory and American culture Includes bibliographical references ( p. 199-204) and index. Towards confronting "the hatred by the other human" -- Facing alterity : the ethics of conversion in Crevecoeur's Letters from an American farmer -- In the name of "justice and humanity" : Thomas Paine's ethical envisionings of the American Republic -- Standing in the "field of freedom" : Thomas Jefferson and the reverberations of that declaratory promise -- Fugitive poseurs : the native eloquence of Frederick Douglass and Sarah Winnemucca -- In the presence of the great American criminal : John Brown's triumphant failure at Harpers Ferry. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Ethics United States History Sources. Political ethics United States History Sources. Criticism, Textual. Other (Philosophy) Ethics in literature. Liberty in literature. Justice in literature. United States Politics and government 1775-1783 Sources. United States Politics and government 1783-1865 Sources. United States Intellectual life 1783-1865 Sources. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Horizons in theory and American culture. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10408472 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 80253 80253