Michael Stoneham

John Brown and the Era of Literary Confrontation (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This exceptional book sheds new light on how John Brown inspired America's most significant intellects, such as Whittier, Whitman, Melville, Howells, Emerson and Thoreau, to take a public stand against the inertia of moral compromise and social degeneracy, bringing the nation to the brink of civil war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135842260
• Artikelnr.: 42983985

Autorenporträt

Michael Stoneham is an Academy Professor in the Department of English at the United States Military Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. John Brown: "A Muse of Fire" 3. Translating a Terrorist:
The Business of Public Intellectuals 4. Confronting Conspirators:
Re-examining Thoreau's "A Plea for Captain John Brown" 5. "Self-Reliance:"
Emerson's Antidote to Political Abdication and Judicial Compromise 6. In
the Shadow of John Brown: Refusing Violence in Harriet Beecher Stowe's
Dred. 7. Epilogue. Appendix A: Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Charles
Wesley Slack. Appendix B: Letter from Theodore Parker to Charles Wesley
Slack. Appendix C: Letter from Frederick Douglass to Charles Wesley Slack.
Notes. Works Cited. Index.