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LEADER: 01781nam a22003138a 4500
001 2009048709
003 DLC
005 20091119111558.0
008 091117s2010 ilu b 001 0 eng c
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020 $a9780226294131 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0226294137 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPS217.S55$bG55 2010
082 00 $a810.9/3552$222
100 1 $aGilmore, Michael T.
245 14 $aThe war on words :$bslavery, race, and free speech in American literature /$cMichael T. Gilmore.
260 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2010.
263 $a1006
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aSlavery, race, and free speech -- 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 -- 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" -- Postbellum -- Tourgée: margin and center (with an addendum on Jackson and the Indian question) -- 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.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSlavery in literature.
650 0 $aRace in literature.
650 0 $aStyle, Literary$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.