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Title:

Frederick Douglass & Herman Melville : essays in relation / edited by Robert S. Levine & Samuel Otter.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

475 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895--Political and social views.
Melville, Herman,--1819-1891--Political and social views.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--History--19th century.
Race relations--History--19th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature.

Other Authors:

Levine, Robert S. (Robert Steven), 1953-
Otter, Samuel, 1956-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Revolutionary fictions and activist labor: looking for Douglass and Melville together / John Ernest -- Fugitive justice: Douglass, Shaw, Melville / Robert K. Wallace -- Cheer and gloom: Douglass and Melville on slave dance and music / Sterling Stuckey -- Douglass, Melville, and the moral economies of American authorship / Susan M. Ryan -- Volcanoes and meteors: Douglass, Melville, and the poetics of insurrection / William Gleason -- Interracial friendship and the aesthetics of freedom / John Stauffer -- Political theology in Douglass and Melville / Steven Mailloux -- The ethics of impertinence: Douglass and Melville on England / Elisa Tamarkin -- The ends of enchantment: Douglass, Melville, and U.S. expansionism in the Americas / Rodrigo Lazo -- Fraternal melancholies: manhood and the limits of sympathy in Douglass and Melville / Elizabeth Barnes -- Douglass's and Melville's "alphabets of the blind" / Hester Blum -- A view from the closet: reconcilable differences in Douglass and Melville / David Van Leer -- Riveted to the wall: covetous fathers, devoted sons, and the patriarchal pieties of Melville and Douglass / Maurice Wallace -- Fahrenheit 1861: cross patriotism in Melville and Douglass / Russ Castronovo, Dana D. Nelson -- White fratricide, black liberation: Melville, Douglass, and Civil War memory / Carolyn L. Karcher -- Douglass, Melville, and the lynching of Billy Budd / Gregory Jay -- Melville, Douglass, the Civil War, pragmatism / Maurice S. Lee -- 1855/1955: from antislavery to civil rights / Eric J. Sundquist.

ISBN:

0807858722 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807858721 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807831840 (alk. paper)
9780807831847 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)166255057

LCCN:

2007033024

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)