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The afterlife of John Brown

Title
The afterlife of John Brown / edited by Andrew Taylor and Eldrid Herrington.
ISBN
1403969922
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Physical Description
xii, 243 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 24, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-238) and index.
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.
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