The Afterlife of John Brown

E. Herrington

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN:
  9781349999583
  9781403969927
• eBook ISBN:
  9781403978462
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern History
• Index: History

"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.

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