Slavery, race, and free speech
Antebellum
Emerson: prospects
Thoreau: words as deeds
Fuller: history, biography, and criticism
Hawthorne and the resilience of dissent
Stowe: from the sacramental to the Old Testamental
Antebellum/Postbellum
Speech and silence in Douglass
Whitman: from Sayer-doer to Sayer-copyist
Slit throats in Melville
"Speak, man!": Billy Budd in the Crucible of Reconstruction
Intertext: "Bartleby, the scrivener"
Postbellum
Tourgée: margin and center (with an addendum on Jackson and the Indian question)
James and the monotone of reunion
Was Twain black?
Crane and the tyranny of Twelve
Choking in Chesnutt
Dixon and the rebirth of discursive power.
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The war on words : slavery, race, and free speech in American literature by Michael T. Gilmore. ISBN 9780226294131. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
