Herrington, Eldrid
The Afterlife of John Brown
1. Introduction: The Anguish None Can Draw
Eldrid Herrington
2. Black People’s Ally, White People’s Bogeyman: A John Brown Story
Louis A. DeCaro
3. “The Blood of Millions”: John Brown’s Body, Public Violence, and Political Community
Franny Nudelman
4. John Brown, Bearded Patriarch
Jean Libby
5. “Earth Feels the Time of Prophet-Song”: John Brown and Public Poetry
Joe Lockard
6. Consenting to Violence: Henry David Thoreau, John Brown, and the Transcendent Intellectual
Andrew Taylor
7. 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
8. Meteor of War: The John Brown Cycle
John Stauffer, Zoe Trodd
9. Transatlantic Spartacus
Janine C. Hartman
10. W.E.B. Du Bois’s
Julie Husband
11. “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
12. John Brown and Children’s Literature
Tyler Hoffman
13. More Heat than Light: The Legacy of John Brown in Russell Banks’s
Kimberly Rae Connor
Keywords: History, US History, Modern History, History of the Americas
- Editor
- Herrington, Eldrid
- Taylor, Andrew
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2005
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 255 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781403978462
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-99958-3