Quiet Testimony : A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
Title:
Quiet Testimony : A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
Author:
Goldberg, Shari.
ISBN:
9780823254804
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (208 pages)
Contents:
Quiet Testimony -- 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.
Abstract:
Develops an account of testimony and the ethics of witnessing through readings of nineteenth-century American literary texts, including those of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Henry James.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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