Browsing by Author "Barter, Faith Elizabeth"

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    • Following the line: Melville’s ethics for a new body of law 
      Barter, Faith Elizabeth (2012-07-19)
      Department: English
      Throughout Moby-Dick, Herman Melville describes successive pairs of animals—man and man, man and whale, whale and whale—in which the two animals maintain a connection via a physical line, whether it be harpoon line, tow ...
    • Human Rites: Deciphering Fictions of Legal and Literary Personhood, 1830-1860 
      Barter, Faith Elizabeth (2016-07-24)
      Department: English
      Human Rites examines the long history of legalized racial violence in the United States and turns to the antebellum period as a critical moment in the national history of racism. It is during this period, I argue, that law ...