Liberalism and the Culture of Security: The Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric of Reform by Katherine Henry (review)

The book joins a growing field of rhetorical studies on how abolitionists and women argued for an expansion of citizenship, as it examines a range of material from the Declaration of Independence to novels and speeches in order to highlight how opposing sides used the same language of protecting "a 'right' or 'liberty' that is under siege" (xiii).