An Energy Field More Intense Than War: Nonviolent Tradition and American Literature (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution): The Nonviolent Tradition and American Literature - Softcover

True, Michael

 
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Synopsis

An account of the tradition of literature dealing with non-violence in the United States, from the 17th to the 20th century. Beginning with Quakers of the 1680s, through the Sanctuary Movement and Plowshares of the 1980s, various novelists and poets, including Hawthorne and Whitman, are discussed.

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Michael True is a professor of English at Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts. He is author of To Construct Peace and is convenor of the Nonviolence Commission of the International Peace Research Association.

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ISBN 10:  0815626797 ISBN 13:  9780815626794
Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 1995
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