Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature Hardback: 128 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 128) - Hardcover

'A profound and moving book that deserves a wide audience. Crane displays a searching wisdom and precise imagination in brilliantly describing the moral universe where literature and law meet in key texts of the nineteenth century. An indispensable study of nationalism and race and their impact on American law and literature.' Eric Sundquist

'An ambitious, brilliant, study of American literary and legal texts from the late eighteenth into the twentieth century. This profoundly interdisciplinary study of law and literature, written by someone who has clearly mastered both disciplines, is also a major contribution to African American literary and cultural studies.' Robert Levine

'This book will force scholars in the field to revise their understanding of the political heritage of the Emersonian tradition.' Brook Thomas

Gregg D. Crane wins his laurels for a detailed and well-reasoned work of extraordinary intensity ...'. American Studies

Gregg Crane is Assistant Professor of English at Miami University. He has been a member of the State Bar of California since 1986. He has published in American Literary History, American Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly.