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ISBN-10 :  0192884886 

ISBN-13 : 9780192884886

Author :  Sandra M. Gustafson 

Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the founding of the first peace societies in 1815 and the mid-century peace congresses, to the postbellum movement’s consequential emphasis on arbitration. The Civil War is the central axis for the book, with three chapters organized around readings of novels by James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne spanning the period from 1840 to 1865. Cooper had personal connections to the movement and thought deeply about the issues it addressed. Literary interest in peace at times overlapped with abolitionism, as was true for Stowe. And, in the case of Hawthorne, attention to peace advocacy arose out of a mixture of skepticism regarding perfectionist impulses, a desire to explore the nature and limits of violence, and fear of civil conflict. The volume also explores fiction engaged with problems that arose in the aftermath of that war, including novels by Henry Adams and John Hay on political corruption and class conflict; works on the failures of Reconstruction by Albion Tourgée and Charles Chesnutt; and the varied treatments of Indigenous experience in Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona and Simon Pokagon’s Queen of the Woods. All of these writers focused on issues related to the cause of peace, expanding its thematic reach and anticipating key insights of twentieth-century peace scholars.

Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 1st Table of contents:

1. Regeneration through Nonviolence
i. The Rise of the Peace Cause
ii. Human Rights in The Deerslayer
iii. 1848 on the Michigan Frontier in The Oak Openings
iv. Copway’s American Indian
2. Abolishing Slavery, Imagining Peace
i. The Peace Cause in the Republic of Letters
ii. The Place of Righteous Violence
iii. Forms of Peace in Dred
iv. William Wells Brown Reconsiders
3. Violence, Direct and Indirect
i. The “Red Republicanism” of Karl Marx
ii. Hawthorne’s Heart of Reform
iii. Indirect Violence in The Blithedale Romance
iv. War Matters
4. Arbitration and Alliance
i. The Alabama Claims Case and the Rise of Arbitration
ii. The Secession Winter of Henry Adams
iii. Forging Alliances in Democracy
iv. John Hay’s The Bread-winners and the Anglo-American Alliance
5. Race and Republican Peace
i. Anglo-Saxonisms
ii. False Peace in A Fool’s Errand and Bricks Without Straw
iii. Charles Chesnutt’s “Angry-Saxons”
iv. Monumenta
6. Failing at Peace
i. Ely Parker, Seneca Peacemaker
ii. Reckoning with A Century of Dishonor in Ramona
iii. Simon Pokagon Rebukes the Nation

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