The war on words
Subtitle: slavery, race, and free speech in American literature
By: Michael T. Gilmore.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226294131
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Slavery in literature; Race in literature; Style, Literary -- Social aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Slavery, race, and free speech; title: Antebellum; title: Emerson: prospects; title: Thoreau: words as deeds; title: Fuller: history, biography, and criticism; title: Hawthorne and the resilience of dissent; title: Stowe: from the sacramental to the Old Testamental; title: Antebellum/Postbellum; title: Speech and silence in Douglass; title: Whitman: from Sayer-doer to Sayer-copyist; title: Slit throats in Melville; title: "Speak, man!": Billy Budd in the Crucible of Reconstruction; title: Intertext: "Bartleby, the scrivener"; title: Postbellum; title: Tourgée: margin and center (with an addendum on Jackson and the Indian question); title: James and the monotone of reunion; title: Was Twain black?; title: Crane and the tyranny of Twelve; title: Choking in Chesnutt; title: Dixon and the rebirth of discursive power.