Going underground : race, space, and the subterranean in the nineteenth-century United States /

"First popularized by newspaper coverage of the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, the underground serves as a metaphor for subversive activity that remains central to our political vocabulary. In Going Underground, Lara Langer Cohen excavates the long history of this now-familiar idea while se...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cohen, Lara Langer (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century. Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century. Politics and literature > United States > History > 19th century. African Americans > Race identity. African Americans > History > 19th century. United States > Race relations > History > 19th century. LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. African Americans. African Americans > Intellectual life. American literature. American literature > African American authors. Literature and society. Politics and literature. Race relations. United States. 1800-1899 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

A Basement Shut Off and Forgotten during the Nineteenth Century
The "Blackness of Darkness" in Mammoth Cave
Early Black Radical Undergrounds
The Underground Railroad's Undergrounds
The Depths of Astonishment: City Mysteries and Subterranean Unknowability
"To drop beneath the floors of the outer world": Paschal Beverly Randolph's Occult Undergrounds
Subterranean Fire: Anarchist Visions of the Underground
Staying Underground.