Quiet Testimony : A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Goldberg, Shari
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Witness bearing (Christianity) in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
PHILOSOPHY > Free Will & Determinism.
Temoignage (Christianisme) dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : arriving at quiet
  • Emerson : testimony without representation
  • Douglass : testimony without identity
  • Melville : testimony without voice
  • James : testimony without life
  • Conclusion : staying quiet.

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