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

The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary attunement to the unspoken, the elusively present, and the subtly haunting. Quiet Testimony finds in such attunement a valuable rethinking of what it means to encounter the truth. It argues that four key writers—Emerson, Douglass, Melville, and Henr...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Arriving at Quiet
  • 1. Emerson: Testimony without Representation
  • 2. Douglass: Testimony without Identity
  • 3. Melville: Testimony without Voice
  • 4. James: Testimony without Life
  • Conclusion: Staying Quiet
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index