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The Afterlife of John Brown / edited by E. Herrington.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Taylor, Andrew, 1968-
Herrington, Eldrid.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
United States--History.
United States.
History, Modern.
America--History.
America.
US History.
Modern History.
History of the Americas.
Local Subjects:
US History.
Modern History.
History of the Americas.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 p.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2005.
Place of Publication:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Language Note:
English
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"--Amazon.com.
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:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-238) and index.
ISBN:
9786611363918
9781281363916
128136391X
9781403978462
1403978468
OCLC:
560463286

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