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The Afterlife of John Brown
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"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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: The Anguish None Can Draw
- 1 Black People's Ally, White People's Bogeyman: A John Brown Story
- 2 "The Blood of Millions": John Brown's Body, Public Violence, and Political Community
- 3 John Brown, Bearded Patriarch
- 4 "Earth Feels the Time of Prophet-Song": John Brown and Public Poetry
- 5 Consenting to Violence: Henry David Thoreau, John Brown, and the Transcendent Intellectual
- 6 Transforming the "Madman into a Saint": The Cultural Memory Site of John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry in Antislavery Literature and History
- 7 Meteor of War: The John Brown Cycle
- 8 Transatlantic Spartacus
- 9 W.E.B. Du Bois's John Brown: Placing Racial Justice at the Center of a Socialist Politics
- 10 "I see your mouth calling/before the words arrive": Muriel Rukeyser's "The Soul and Body of John Brown" and 1930s America
- 11 John Brown and Children's Literature
- 12 More Heat than Light: The Legacy of John Brown in Russell Banks's Cloudsplitter
- Works Cited
- Index