Facing the Other: Ethical Disruption and the American Mind

by Linda Bolton

Book Overview

"Bolton is admirably focused, centering broader ventures around precise turning points in the documents and incidents she has selected.... The book crosses generic boundaries... in the spirit of an other who transcends any single history or discipline." -- Religion and Literature
Linda Bolton uses six extraordinarily resonant moments in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American history to highlight the ethical challenge that the treatment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807136468
• ISBN13: 9780807136461
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"