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] ©2013 |
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