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The war on words : slavery, race, and free speech in American literature
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The war on words : slavery, race, and free speech in American literature / Michael T. Gilmore.
ISBN
9780226294131 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226294137 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Physical Description
ix, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 13, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Slavery, race, and free speech
Antebellum. Emerson: prospects
Thoreau: words as deeds
Fuller: history, biography, and criticism
Hawthorne and the resilience of dissent
Stowe: from the sacramental to the Old Testamental
Antebellum/Postbellum. Speech and silence in Douglass
Whitman: from sayer-doer to sayer-copyist
Slit throats in Melville
"Speak, man!": Billy Budd in the crucible of Reconstruction
Intertext: "Bartleby, the scrivener"
Postbellum. Tourgée: margin and center
James and the monotone of reunion
Was Twain black?
Crane and the tyranny of twelve
Choking in Chesnutt
Dixon and the rebirth of discursive power.
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