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Title
  • John Brown and the era of literary confrontation / Michael Stoneham.
Author
Stoneham, Michael.
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2009.

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Description
227 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
  • Studies in American popular history and culture
Uniform Title
American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
Subject
  • Abolitionists > United States > Biography
  • American letters
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century > Sources
  • Antislavery movements in literature
  • Authors, American > 19th century > Correspondence
  • Brown, John, 1800-1859 > In literature
  • Brown, John, 1800-1859 > Influence
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and index.
Contents
John Brown : "A muse of fire" -- Translating a terrorist : the business of public intellectuals -- Confronting conspirators : re-examining Thoreau's "Plea for Captain John Brown" -- "Self-reliance" : Emerson's antidote to political abdication and judicial compromise -- In the shadow of John Brown : refusing violence in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred.
ISBN
  • 9780415996822 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0415996821 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780203876435 (ebk)
  • 0203876431 (ebk)
LCCN
2008051939
OCLC
  • OCN259266308
  • 259266308
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library