Reading the old man : John Brown in American culture /
Ronda, Bruce A.
Knoxville, Tenn. : University of Tennessee Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-213) and index.
Thoreau's "A plea for Captain John Brown" : shaping the literary image -- Whittier and Melville -- The autobiographical impulse : Dana, Douglass, and Howells -- Madman, traitor, incendiary, monomaniac : Warren and others -- Robinson, Masters, and Benet -- John Brown in the thirties -- Truman Nelson -- From W.E.B. Du Bois to Michael Harper -- Olds, Cliff, and Banks : contemporary novelists on John Brown.
Brown, John, 1800-1859
Brown, John, 1800-1859
Brown, John, 1800-1859
American literature
Art, American
Art criticism
Abolitionists