TY - BOOK AU - Hunt,Lynn TI - Inventing human rights: a history SN - 0393060950 (hardcover) AV - JC585 .H89 2007 U1 - 323.09 22 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton & Co. KW - Human rights in literature KW - Human rights KW - History KW - Torture N1 - "First published as a Norton paperback 2008" -- verso page; Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-260) and index; Acknowledgments -- Introduction: We hold these truths to be self-evident -- Torrents of emotion: reading novels and imagining equality -- Bone of their bone: abolishing torture -- They have set a great example: declaring rights -- There will be no end of it: the consequences of declaring -- Soft power of humanity: why human rights failed, only to succeed in the long run -- Appendix: Three declarations: 1776, 1789, 1948 -- Notes -- Permissions -- Index UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0620/2006027599.html ER -