John Brown and the era of literary confrontation
By: by Michael Stoneham.
Series: Studies in American popular history and culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780415996822; 9780203876435
Subjects: Brown, John, -- 1800-1859 -- Influence; Brown, John, -- 1800-1859 -- In literature; Antislavery movements in literature; American literature -- History and criticism; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence; American letters; Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Sources.; Correspondence.; Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: John Brown : "A muse of fire"; title: Translating a terrorist : the business of public intellectuals; title: Confronting conspirators : re-examining Thoreau's "A plea for Captain John Brown"; title: "Self-reliance" : Emerson's antidote to political abdication and judicial compromise; title: In the shadow of John Brown : refusing violence in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred; title: Appendix A: Letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Charles Wesley Slack; title: Appendix B: Letter from Theodore Parker to Charles Wesley Slack; title: Appendix C: Letter from Frederick Douglass to Charles Wesley Slack.