The afterlife of John Brown
By: edited by Andrew Taylor and Eldrid Herrington.
Contributors: Taylor, Andrew, 1968-; Herrington, Eldrid.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Brown, John 1800-1859 -- Influence.; Brown, John 1800-1859 -- Public opinion.; Brown, John 1800-1859 -- In literature.; Public opinion -- United States.; American literature -- History and criticism.; Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography -- Miscellanea.
Genres: Biography; Miscellanea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Black people's ally, white people's bogeyman : a John Brown story  / Louis A DeCaro,Jr.; title: "The blood of millions" : John Brown's body, public violence, and political community / Franny Nudelman; title: John Brown, bearded patriarch / Jean Libby; title: "Earth feels the time of prophet-song" : John Brown and public poetry / Joe Lockard; title: Consenting to violence : Henry David Thoreau, John Brown and the transcendent intellectual / Andrew Taylor; title: Transforming the "madman in a saint" : the cultural memory site of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry in anti-slavery literature and history / Kristen Proehl; title: Meteor of war : the John Brown cycle / John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd; title: Transatlantic Spartacus / Janine C. Hartman; title: W.E.B. DuBois's John Brown : placing racial justice at the center of a socialist politics / Julie Husband; title: "I see your mouth calling/before the words arrive" : Muriel Rukeyser's "The soul and body of John Brown" and thirties America / Bruce A. Ronda; title: John Brown and children's literature / Tyler Hoffman; title: More heat than light : the legacy of John Brown in Russell Banks's Cloudsplitter / Kimberly Rae Connor.