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The Afterlife of John Brown

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  1. Andrew Taylor

    1. University of Edinburgh, UK

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  2. Eldrid Herrington

    1. University College Dublin, Ireland

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: The Anguish None Can Draw

    • Eldrid Herrington
    Pages 1-10

  3. Black People’s Ally, White People’s Bogeyman: A John Brown Story

    • Louis A. DeCaro Jr.
    Pages 11-26

  4. “The Blood of Millions”: John Brown’s Body, Public Violence, and Political Community

    • Franny Nudelman
    Pages 27-55

  5. John Brown, Bearded Patriarch

    • Jean Libby
    Pages 57-67

  6. “Earth Feels the Time of Prophet-Song”: John Brown and Public Poetry

    • Joe Lockard
    Pages 69-87

  7. Consenting to Violence: Henry David Thoreau, John Brown, and the Transcendent Intellectual

    • Andrew Taylor
    Pages 89-105

  8. Transforming the “Madman into a Saint”: The Cultural Memory Site of John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry in Antislavery Literature and History

    • Kristen Proehl
    Pages 107-120

  9. Meteor of War: The John Brown Cycle

    • John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd
    Pages 121-144

  10. Transatlantic Spartacus

    • Janine C. Hartman
    Pages 145-158

  11. W.E.B. Du Bois’s John Brown: Placing Racial Justice at the Center of a Socialist Politics

    • Julie Husband
    Pages 159-171

  12. “I see your mouth calling / before the words arrive”: Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Soul and Body of John Brown” and 1930s America

    • Bruce A. Ronda
    Pages 173-185

  13. John Brown and Children’s Literature

    • Tyler Hoffman
    Pages 187-202

  14. More Heat than Light: The Legacy of John Brown in Russell Banks’s Cloudsplitter

    • Kimberly Rae Connor
    Pages 203-224

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 225-243
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About this book

"An examination of the influence--however contested--of John Brown of the Harper's Ferry Rebellion on the national narrative of the United States"--Amazon.com.

Reviews

"The Afterlife of John Brown is an intelligent and searching enquiry into the contemporary and posthumous reception of the abolitionist John Brown's life, political activism, and death. It helps us to see how divergent, complex, and troubling were the issues that Brown's clarity of purpose posed to an American culture - white and black, Northern and Southern - which found it difficult to live with moral clarity." - Michael O'Brien, University of Cambridge

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Edinburgh, UK

    Andrew Taylor

  • University College Dublin, Ireland

    Eldrid Herrington

About the editors

Andrew Taylor is a Lecturer in American Literature, University of Edinburgh. Eldrid Herrington is an Assistant Professor of English, University College Dublin.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Afterlife of John Brown

  • Editors: Andrew Taylor, Eldrid Herrington

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-7846-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6992-7Published: 11 December 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-99958-3Published: 01 January 1900

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-7846-2Published: 10 December 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 243

  • Topics: US History, Modern History, History of the Americas

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