Frederick Douglass & Herman Melville
Subtitle: essays in relation
By: edited by Robert S. Levine & Samuel Otter.
Contributors: Levine, Robert S. 1953-; Otter, Samuel, 1956-
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9780807831847; 9780807858721
Subjects: Douglass, Frederick, -- 1818-1895 -- Political and social views; Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Political and social views; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- History -- 19th century; Race relations -- History -- 19th century; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature
Other titles: Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Revolutionary fictions and activist labor: looking for Douglass and Melville together / John Ernest; title: Fugitive justice: Douglass, Shaw, Melville / Robert K. Wallace; title: Cheer and gloom: Douglass and Melville on slave dance and music / Sterling Stuckey; title: Douglass, Melville, and the moral economies of American authorship / Susan M. Ryan; title: Volcanoes and meteors: Douglass, Melville, and the poetics of insurrection / William Gleason; title: Interracial friendship and the aesthetics of freedom / John Stauffer; title: Political theology in Douglass and Melville / Steven Mailloux; title: The ethics of impertinence: Douglass and Melville on England / Elisa Tamarkin; title: The ends of enchantment: Douglass, Melville, and U.S. expansionism in the Americas / Rodrigo Lazo; title: Fraternal melancholies: manhood and the limits of sympathy in Douglass and Melville / Elizabeth Barnes; title: Douglass's and Melville's "alphabets of the blind" / Hester Blum; title: A view from the closet: reconcilable differences in Douglass and Melville / David Van Leer; title: Riveted to the wall: covetous fathers, devoted sons, and the patriarchal pieties of Melville and Douglass / Maurice Wallace; title: Fahrenheit 1861: cross patriotism in Melville and Douglass / Russ Castronovo, Dana D. Nelson; title: White fratricide, black liberation: Melville, Douglass, and Civil War memory / Carolyn L. Karcher; title: Douglass, Melville, and the lynching of Billy Budd / Gregory Jay; title: Melville, Douglass, the Civil War, pragmatism / Maurice S. Lee; title: 1855/1955: from antislavery to civil rights / Eric J. Sundquist.