A spectacular secret
Subtitle: lynching in American life and literature
By: Jacqueline Goldsby.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Lynching -- United States -- History; Lynching -- United States -- Historiography; Lynching in literature; American literature -- History and criticism; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A sign of the times : lynching and its cultural logic; title: Writing "dynamitically" : Ida B. Wells; title: "The drift of the public mind" : Stephen Crane; title: Lynching's mass appeal and the "terrible real" : James Weldon Johnson; title: Through a different lens : lynching photography at the turn of the nineteenth century; title: In the mind's eye.