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Title The afterlife of John Brown / edited by Andrew Taylor and Eldrid Herrington.

Publication Info. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E451 .A33 2005    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Subject Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- Influence.
Brown, John, 1800-1859.
Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- Public opinion.
Public opinion.
Public opinion -- United States.
United States.
Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- In literature.
American literature -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography -- Miscellanea.
Abolitionists.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Biographies.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Added Author Taylor, Andrew, 1968-
Herrington, Eldrid.
ISBN 1403969922