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Quiet Testimony : A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature /
The nineteenth century may have been the age of "our talking America," as Emerson put it, but it was also a time of extraordinary attunement to the unspoken, the elusively present, and the subtly haunting. This book finds in such attunement a valuable rethinking of what it means to encount...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2013
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | The nineteenth century may have been the age of "our talking America," as Emerson put it, but it was also a time of extraordinary attunement to the unspoken, the elusively present, and the subtly haunting. This book finds in such attunement a valuable rethinking of what it means to encounter the truth. It argues that four key writers - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Henry James - work to open up the domain of the witness and the obliging text by articulating quietude's claim on the clamouring world. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780823254798 |