Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform

by Leslie Butler

Book Overview

In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the nineteenth century, Leslie Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and cosmopolitan reform. She addresses how these men established a critical perspective on American racism, materialism, and jingoism in the decades between the 1850s and the 1890s while she...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807857920
• ISBN13: 9780807857922
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"