Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America

Contents

C O N T E N T S Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xi I N T RO D U C T I O N Discursive Democracy and the Culture of Reform 1 C H A P T E R O N E Religious Pluralism and the Origins of the Culture of Reform 31 C H A P T E R T W O Sincerity and Publicity in the Grimké-Beecher Debate 74 C H A P T E R T H R E E Garrison, Douglass, and the Problem of Politics 121 C H A P T E R F O U R Emerson’s Self-Reliance as a Theory of Community 161 E P I L O G U E Sincerity and Pluralism in Critical Conversation 199 Notes 203 Bibliography 223 Index 237 ...