Temperance and cosmopolitanism [electronic resource] : African American reformers in the Atlantic world / Carole Lynn Stewart.

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"A study of select nineteenth-century African American authors and reformers who mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stewart, Carole Lynn (Author)
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
Series:Africana religions
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Cosmopolitanism in literature.
Temperance in literature.
African American social reformers > History > 19th century.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2018 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2018 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Temperance and Cosmopolitanism: African American Reformers in the Atlantic World
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction : slave travels and the beginnings of a temperate cosmopolitanism
  • William Wells Brown and Martin Delany : civil and geographic spaces of temperate cosmopolitanism
  • Brown's temperate cosmopolitan "home" : Creole civilization and temperate manners
  • George Moses Horton's freedom : a temperate republicanism and a critical cosmopolitanism
  • Frances E. W. Harper's Black cosmopolitan Creoles : a temperate transnationalism
  • "The quintessence of sanctifying grace" : Amanda Smith's religious experience, freedom, and a temperate cosmopolitanism
  • Epilogue : tempering and conjuring the roots of cosmopolitan recovery.