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The afterlife of John Brown / edited by Andrew Taylor and Eldrid Herrington.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brown, John, 1800-1859--Influence.
- Brown, John.
- Brown, John, 1800-1859--Public opinion.
- Brown, John, 1800-1859.
- Public opinion--United States.
- Public opinion.
- Abolitionists.
- United States.
- Brown, John, 1800-1859--In literature.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Abolitionists--United States--Biography--Miscellanea.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Summary:
- An examination of the influence--however contested--of John Brown of the Harper's Ferry Rebellion on the national narrative of the United States
- Contents:
- Black people's ally, white people's bogeyman : a John Brown story / Louis A DeCaro, Jr.
- "The blood of millions" : John Brown's body, public violence, and political community / Franny Nudelman
- John Brown, bearded patriarch / Jean Libby
- "Earth feels the time of prophet-song" : John Brown and public poetry / Joe Lockard
- Consenting to violence : Henry David Thoreau, John Brown, and the transcendent intellectual / Andrew Taylor
- Transforming the "madman into a saint" : the cultural memory site of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in antislavery literature and history / Kristen Proehl
- Meteor of war : the John Brown cycle / John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd
- Transatlantic Spartacus / Janine C. Hartman
- W.E.B. Du Bois's John Brown : placing racial justice at the center of a socialist politics / Julie Husband
- "I see your mouth calling/before the words arrive" : Muriel Rukeyser's "The soul and body of John Brown" and 1930s America / Bruce A. Ronda
- John Brown and children's literature / Tyler Hoffman
- More heat than light : the legacy of John Brown in Russell Banks's Cloudsplitter / Kimberly Rae Connor.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-238) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403969922
- OCLC:
- 60323216
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