%0 Electronic %A Etter, William M. %I Cambridge Scholars Publishing %D 2012 %C Newcastle upon Tyne %G English %@ 9781443842754 %@ 1443842753 %T American Literary-Political Engagements From Poe to James. %U http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=522828 %X American Literary-Political Engagements: From Poe to James examines how authors in the nineteenth-century United States often engaged the politics of their times through literature as they conceptualized political issues in literary terms. Concerns over Jacksonian democracy, social reform in a rapidly industrializing American economy, African-American familial cooperation in the post-Civil War era, changing conceptions of culpability Other respect to the law, and marginalized individuals' invo ...