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Title The afterlife of John Brown / edited by Andrew Taylor and Eldrid Herrington
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary The first instance of detailed scholarly engagement with the cultural legacy of John Brown, this collection seeks to examine the lasting impact of Brown and his armed slave rebellion of 1859
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index
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Subject Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- Influence
Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- Public opinion
Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- In literature
SUBJECT Brown, John, 1800-1859 fast
Subject Public opinion -- United States
American literature -- History and criticism.
Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography -- Miscellanea
History of the Americas.
HISTORY.
History.
Abolitionists
American literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature
Public opinion
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Taylor, Andrew, 1968- editor.
Herrington, Eldrid, editor.
LC no. 2005048677
ISBN 9781403978462
1403978468
128136391X
9781281363916
9781403969927
1403969922
9781349551774
1349551775