Political antislavery discourse and American literature of the 1850s / David Grant.

American literature and the political antislavery call for Northern agency -- Stowe's Dred and the narrative logic of slavery's extension -- Sovereignty and the politics of analogy in Whittier's "The panorama" -- Self-abasement and Republican insecurity : Willis's Paul Fane in its political context -- Ophelia and the economy of passion in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- "Our nation's hope is she" : the cult of Jessie Fremont in the Republican campaign poetry of 1856 -- "Fall behind me, States!" : reexamining the politics of Union in Leaves of grass