Reading the old man
Subtitle: John Brown in American culture
By: Bruce A. Ronda.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781572336209
Subjects: Brown, John, -- 1800-1859 -- In literature.; Brown, John, -- 1800-1859 -- Art.; Brown, John, -- 1800-1859 -- Influence.; American literature -- History and criticism.; Art, American -- History.; Art criticism -- United States.; Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography -- Miscellanea.
Genres: Art.; Biography; Miscellanea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-213) and index.
Table of contents: value: Thoreau's "A plea for Captain John Brown" : shaping the literary image; value: Whittier and Melville; value: The autobiographical impulse : Dana, Douglass, and Howells; value: Madman, traitor, incendiary, monomaniac : Warren and others; value: Robinson, Masters, and Benet; value: John Brown in the thirties; value: Truman Nelson; value: From W.E.B. Du Bois to Michael Harper; value: Olds, Cliff, and Banks : contemporary novelists on John Brown.