The war on words, slavery, race, and free speech in American literature, Michael T. Gilmore
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The war on words, slavery, race, and free speech in American literature, Michael T. Gilmore
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
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non fiction
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The war on words
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bibliography
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Michael T. Gilmore
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slavery, race, and free speech in American literature
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Part I: Slavery, race, and free speech -- Part II: Antebellum. Emerson: prospects ; Thoreau: words as deeds ; Fuller: history, biography, and criticism ; Hawthorne and the resilience of dissent ; Stowe: from the sacramental to the Old Testamental -- Part III: Antebellum/Postbellum. Speech and silence in Douglass ; Whitman: from sayer-doer to sayer-copyist ; Slit throats in Melville ; "Speak, man!": Billy Budd in the crucible of Reconstruction -- Intertext: "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Part IV: Postbellum. Tourgée: margin and center ; James and the monotone of reunion ; Was Twain black? ; Crane and the tyranny of twelve ; Choking in Chesnutt ; Dixon and the rebirth of discursive power -- Timeline
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