![]() | The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper's Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown's shaped American literature between the Revolution and the Civil War. Smith Caleb : Caleb Smith is Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. |
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