| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 197 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : arriving at quiet -- Emerson : testimony without representation -- Douglass : testimony without identity -- Melville : testimony without voice -- James : testimony without life -- Conclusion : staying quiet |
| Summary |
The nineteenth century may have been the age of "our talking America," as Emerson put it, but it was also a time of extraordinary attunement to the unspoken, the elusively present, and the subtly haunting. This book finds in such attunement a valuable rethinking of what it means to encounter the truth. It argues that four key writers - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Henry James - work to open up the domain of the witness and the obliging text by articulating quietude's claim on the clamouring world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Witness bearing (Christianity) in literature.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Free Will & Determinism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Witness bearing (Christianity) in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823254804 |
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0823254801 |
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9780823254798 |
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0823254798 |
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9780823254781 |
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082325478X |
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