| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxii, 218 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-213) and index. |
| Contents |
Thoreau's "A plea for Captain John Brown" : shaping the literary image -- Whittier and Melville -- The autobiographical impulse : Dana, Douglass, and Howells -- Madman, traitor, incendiary, monomaniac : Warren and others -- Robinson, Masters, and Benet -- John Brown in the thirties -- Truman Nelson -- From W.E.B. Du Bois to Michael Harper -- Olds, Cliff, and Banks : contemporary novelists on John Brown. |
| Subject |
Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- In literature.
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Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- Portraits.
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Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- Influence.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Art, American -- History.
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Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9781572336209 (hardcover) |
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157233620X (hardcover) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000042343817 |
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