Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois

by Caroline F. Levander

Throughout American literature, the figure of the child is often represented in opposition to the adult. In Cradle of Liberty Caroline F. Levander proposes that this opposition is crucial to American political thought and the literary cultures that surround and help produce it. Levander argues that from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth, American literary and political texts did more than include child subjects: they depended...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822338726
• ISBN13: 9780822338727
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"