An edition of The war on words
(2010)
The war on words
slavery, race, and free speech in American literature
by Michael T. Gilmore
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Slavery in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Race in literature, Literary Style, Style, literary, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, United states, history, Literary stylePlaces
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War on Words: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature
2013, University of Chicago Press
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War on Words: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature
2010, University of Chicago Press
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War on Words: Slavery, Race, and Free Speech in American Literature
2010, University of Chicago Press
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The war on words: slavery, race, and free speech in American literature
2010, University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents
Slavery, 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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