John Brown And The Era Of Literary Confrontation

Author : Michael Stoneham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135842253

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John Brown and the Era of Literary Confrontation by Michael Stoneham Pdf

Radical abolitionist and freedom-fighter John Brown inspired literary America to confrontation during his short but dramatic career as a public figure in antebellum America. Emerging from obscurity during the violent struggle to determine how Kansas would enter the Union in 1856, John Brown captured the imagination of the most prominent Eastern literary figures following his dramatic, though failed raid on Harper’s Ferry. Impressed by Brown’s forthright defense of his attempt to initiate the end of slavery, Whittier, Whitman, Melville, Longfellow, and Howells responded to the abolitionist with poetic tributes suggesting that Brown was a liberating hero, while Emerson and Thoreau celebrated his effort to inspire the nation to a new moral awareness of the common humanity of all men. Responses, however, were not uniform, as these and other figures debated the merits and meanings of Brown’s actions. This exceptional book sheds new light on how John Brown inspired America’s most significant intellects to take a public stand against the inertia of moral compromise and social degeneracy, bringing the nation to the brink of civil war.

Author : John Stauffer,Zoe Trodd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674048850

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The Tribunal by John Stauffer,Zoe Trodd Pdf

This landmark anthology collects speeches, letters, newspapers, journals, poems, and songs to demonstrate that John Brown’s actions at Harpers Ferry altered the course of history. Without Brown, the Civil War probably would have been delayed by four years and emancipation movements in Brazil, Cuba, even Russia might have been disrupted.

Author : Ethan J. Kytle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107074590

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Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era by Ethan J. Kytle Pdf

Romantic Reformers is an intellectual history of the American antislavery movement in the 1850s and early 1860s.

Author : Carola Dietze
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786637215

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The Invention of Terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States by Carola Dietze Pdf

Terrorism's roots in Western Europe and the USA This book examines key cases of terrorist violence to show that the invention of terrorism was linked to the birth of modernity in Europe, Russia and the United States, rather than to Tsarist despotism in 19th century Russia or to Islam sects in Medieval Persia. Combining a highly readable historical narrative with analysis of larger issues in social and political history, the author argues that the dissemination of news about terrorist violence was at the core of a strategy that aimed for political impact on rulers as well as the general public. Dietze's lucid account also reveals how the spread of knowledge about terrorist acts was, from the outset, a transatlantic process. Two incidents form the book's centerpiece. The first is the failed attempt to assassinate French Emperor Napoléon III by Felice Orsini in 1858, in an act intended to achieve Italian unity and democracy. The second case study offers a new reading of John Brown's raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859, as a decisive moment in the abolitionist struggle and occurrences leading to the American Civil War. Three further examples from Germany, Russia, and the US are scrutinized to trace the development of the tactic by first imitators. With their acts of violence, the "invention" of terrorism was completed. Terrorism has existed as a tactic since then and has essentially only been adapted through the use of new technologies and methods.

Author : Regina Kreide,Andreas Langenohl
Publisher : Nomos Verlag
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783845293547

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Conceptualizing Power in Dynamics of Securitization by Regina Kreide,Andreas Langenohl Pdf

Der Band stellt erstmalig die 'Machtfrage' in der gegenwärtigen konstruktivistischen Sicherheitsforschung. Wie lassen sich Machtverhältnisse, die Probleme der Sicherheit und Unsicherheit betreffen, aus transdisziplinärer und historischer Sicht analysieren? Der Band führt Beiträge aus der Geschichtswissenschaft, Kunstgeschichte, Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie, Kulturanthropologie und Rechtswissenschaft zusammen, um die bislang eher implizit gestellte Frage nach der konzeptuellen Bedeutung von Macht in Prozessen der Versicherheitlichung zu eruieren. Durch konzeptuell-theoretische Aufsätze und durch historische Fallstudien, die vom 16. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert reichen, werden die dominanten Paradigmen der Critical Security Studies, die zumeist aus den Internationalen Beziehungen stammen und oftmals den Staat ins Zentrum der Analyse rücken, in ein neues Licht gerückt.

Author : Clemens Spahr
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793649553

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American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education by Clemens Spahr Pdf

American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education focuses on three Romantic educational genres and their institutional and media contexts: the conversation, literary journalism, and the public lecture. The genres discussed in this book illustrate the ways in which the Transcendentalists engaged nineteenthcentury media and educational institutions in order to fully realize their projects. The book also charts the development from the semi-public conversational platforms such as Alcott’s Temple School and Fuller’s conversations for women in the 1830s to the increasingly public periodical culture and lecture platforms of the 1840s and the early 1850s. This expansion caused a reconsideration of the meaning and function of Romanticism.

Author : Sherita L. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135244453

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Black Women in New South Literature and Culture by Sherita L. Johnson Pdf

Using the "the Negro Problem" in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans, specifically those in the South. Although the South has been one of the most enduring sites of criticism in American Studies and in American literary history, Johnson argues that it is impossible to consider what the "South" and what "southernness" mean as cultural references without looking at how black women have contributed to and contested any unified definition of that region. Johnson challenges the homogeneity of a "white" South and southern cultural identity by recognizing how fictional and historical black women are underacknowledged agents of cultural change. Johnson regards the South as a cultural region that (re)constructs black womanhood, but she also considers how black womanhood have transformed the South. Specialists in nineteenth and twentieth century American literature will find this book a necessary addition, as will scholars of African American Literature and History.

Author : Franny Nudelman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469625874

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John Brown's Body by Franny Nudelman Pdf

Singing "John Brown's Body" as they marched to war, Union soldiers sought to steel themselves in the face of impending death. As the bodies of these soldiers accumulated in the wake of battle, writers, artists, and politicians extolled their deaths as a means to national unity and rebirth. Many scholars have followed suit, and the Civil War is often remembered as an inaugural moment in the development of national identity. Revisiting the culture of the Civil War, Franny Nudelman analyzes the idealization of mass death and explores alternative ways of depicting the violence of war. Considering martyred soldiers in relation to suffering slaves, she argues that responses to wartime death cannot be fully understood without attention to the brutality directed against African Americans during the antebellum era. Throughout, Nudelman focuses not only on representations of the dead but also on practical methods for handling, studying, and commemorating corpses. She narrates heated conflicts over the political significance of the dead: whether in the anatomy classroom or the Army Medical Museum, at the military scaffold or the national cemetery, the corpse was prized as a source of authority. Integrating the study of death, oppression, and war, John Brown's Body makes an important contribution to a growing body of scholarship that meditates on the relationship between violence and culture.

Author : Neal Millikan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136674457

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Lotteries in Colonial America by Neal Millikan Pdf

Lotteries in Colonial America explores lotteries in England and the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From the founding of Jamestown to the financing of the American Revolution, lotteries played an important role in the economic life of the colonies. Lotteries provided an alternative form of raising money for colonial governments and a means of subsidizing public and private projects without enacting new taxes. The book also describes and analyzes the role of lotteries in the eighteenth-century consumer revolution, which transformed how buyers viewed the goods they purchased, or in the case of lotteries, won. As the middling classes in the colonies began to acquire objects that went beyond mere necessities, lotteries gave colonists an opportunity to risk a small sum in the hopes of gaining riches or valuable goods. Finally, the book examines how lotteries played a role in the changing notions of fortune in colonial America. Religion and chance were present in colonial lotteries as participants merged their own free will to purchase a lottery ticket with the will of the Christian God to select a winner.

Author : Michael Stancliff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136947063

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper by Michael Stancliff Pdf

A prominent early feminist, abolitionist, and civil rights advocate, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wrote and spoke across genres and reform platforms during the turbulent second half of the nineteenth century. Her invention of a new commonplace language of moral character drew on the persuasive and didactic motifs of the previous decades of African-American reform politics, but far exceeded her predecessors in crafting lessons of rhetoric for women. Focusing on the way in which Harper brought her readers a critical training for the rhetorical action of a life commitment to social reform, this book reconsiders her practice as explicitly and primarily a project of teaching. This study also places Harper's work firmly in black-nationalist lineages from which she is routinely excluded, establishes Harper as an architect of a collective African-American identity that constitutes a political and theoretical bridge between early abolitionism and 20th-century civil rights activism, and contributes to the contemporary portrayal of Harper as an important theorist of African-American feminism whose radical egalitarian ethic has lasting relevance for civil rights and human rights workers.

Author : Megan Sanborn Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135967901

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Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama by Megan Sanborn Jones Pdf

In the late nineteenth century, melodramas were spectacular entertainment for Americans. They were also a key forum in which elements of American culture were represented, contested, and inverted. This book focuses specifically on the construction of the Mormon villain as rapist, murderer, and Turk in anti-Mormon melodramas. These melodramas illustrated a particularly religious world-view that dominated American life and promoted the sexually conservative ideals of the cult of true womanhood. They also examined the limits of honorable violence, and suggested the whiteness of national ethnicity. In investigating the relationship between theatre, popular literature, political rhetoric, and religious fervor, Megan Sanborn Jones reveals how anti-Mormon melodramas created a space for audiences to imagine a unified American identity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011676520

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Birgit Spengler
Publisher : Campus Verlag
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783593503110

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Literary Spinoffs by Birgit Spengler Pdf

"Literary Spinoffs: Rewriting the Canon Re-Imagining the Community" explores the literary strategies, theoretical dimensions, and cultural implications of contemporary rewritings of nineteenth-century classics. By hooking on to powerful literary and cultural narratives, literary spinoffs seek to interfere with the cultural imaginary and revise the ways in which the cultural community constructs itself via formative narratives. Spengler offers in-depth case studies of prominent contemporary rewritings and the cultural work they undertake, while also examining the genre s particular aesthetics and effects. Through their intensely intertextual form, spinoffs raise urgent questions about the possibilities for participation in processes of cultural meaning-making and invigorate contemporary debates about intellectual property, cultural capital, as well as high and popular culture. "

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1922 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211722678

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Bruce Olds
Publisher : Picador
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250087362

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Raising Holy Hell by Bruce Olds Pdf

On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, leaving fifteen people dead. Viewed in the North as a saint of freedom and in the South as the devil incarnate, Brown was a visionary who not only foretold but made inevitable the bloody apocalypse of the Civil War. An intricate mosaic of alternating narrative voices, Raising Holy Hell is an explosive, multitextured evocation of the prophetic madness of the man who saw an America damned by the sin of slavery.