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1000934
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b755304
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| Main Entry
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Gilmore, Michael T.
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| Title & Author
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The war on words : : slavery, race, and free speech in American literature /\ Michael T. Gilmore.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (ix, 330 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0226294137
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: 0226294153
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: 1282710702
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: 9780226294131
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: 9780226294155
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: 9781282710702
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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 -- 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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| Abstract
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How did slavery and race impact American literature in the nineteenth century? In this ambitious book, Michael T. Gilmore argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Crane wrestled with the demands for silence and circumspection that accompanied the antebellum fear of disunion and the postwar reconciliation between the North and South. Proposing a radical new interpretation of nineteenth-century American literature, The War on Words examines struggles over permissible and impermissible utterance in works ranging from Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" to Henry James's "The Bostonians."--Publisher.
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Literary style-- Social aspects-- United States.
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Race in literature.
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Slavery in literature.
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American literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Race in literature.
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Slavery in literature.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/3552
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| LC Classification
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PS217.S55G55 2010eb
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