The archive of fear : White crisis and Black freedom in Douglass, Stowe, and DuBois /
Focusing on U.S. slavery and its aftermath in the nineteenth century, The Archive of Fear explores the traumatic force field that continued to inflect discussions of slavery and abolition both before and after the Civil War. It challenges the long-assumed distinction between psychological and cultur...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford studies in American literary history.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: When Hegel falls silent
- 1. Crisis and rehearsal in Frederick Douglass: The archive of the interrupted lecture
- Interlude: moving things
- 2. Who's afraid of Virginia's Nat Turner? Mesmerism, Stowe, and the terror of things
- 3. "More than lynched" : Du Bois, John Brown, and the black reconstruction of democracy
- Postlude: Reconstruction in analysis.