Cohen Going Underground

Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2412-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Lara Langer Cohen excavates the long history of the underground in nineteenth-century US literature, showing how these formations of the underground can inspire new forms of political resistance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Lara Langer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: A Basement Shut Off and Forgotten during the Nineteenth Century 1
1. The “Blackness of Darkness” in Mammoth Cave 25
2. Early Black Radical Undergrounds 46
3. The Underground Railroad’s Undergrounds 74
4. The Depths of Astonishment: City Mysteries and Subterranean Unknowability 104
5. “To Drop beneath the Floors of the Outer World”: Paschal Beverly Randolph’s Occult Undergrounds 133
6. Subterranean Fire: Anarchist Visions of the Underground 166
Epilogue: Staying Underground 198
Notes 205
Bibliography 245
Index 267

Über Autor(innen)

Lara Langer Cohen is Associate Professor of English at Swarthmore College, author of The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture, and coeditor of Early African American Print Culture.