Quiet Testimony: A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature
ISBN: 9780823254798
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Witness bearing (Christianity) in literature;

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.

Goldberg Shari :

Shari Goldberg is Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.


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