Searching for Jim : slavery in Sam Clemens's world / / Terrell Dempsey
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| Autore: |
Dempsey Terrell <1954->
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| Titolo: |
Searching for Jim : slavery in Sam Clemens's world / / Terrell Dempsey
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| Pubblicazione: | Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | xvii, 316 p. : ill |
| Disciplina: | 818/.409 |
| B | |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century |
| Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Slavery - Missouri - Hannibal - History - 19th century | |
| Slavery - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Authors, American - 19th century | |
| Slavery in literature | |
| Racism in literature | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Hannibal (Mo.) Intellectual life 19th century |
| Hannibal (Mo.) Social conditions | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-303) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 A Performance Spring 1891 - Hartford, Connecticut -- Chapter 2 1839 -- Chapter 3 Slavery and the Clemens Family -- Chapter 4 The Abolition Movement across the River -- Chapter 5 The Contest Begins -- Chapter 6 The Trial of Thompson, Work, and Burr -- Chapter 7 Judge John Marshall Clemens -- Chapter 8 Slavery and the Churches of Hannibal -- Chapter 9 The Theology of Slavery -- Chapter 10 The Face of Domestic Slavery in Hannibal -- Chapter 11 The Siege Begins -- Chapter 12 The Emancipation and Colonization Movement -- Chapter 13 1849 and 1850 Terror in Marion County -- Chapter 14 Sam Clemens and the Press in Slave Culture -- Chapter 15 Runaway Slaves and Slave Resistance -- Chapter 16 Battling Abolitionists in the Press The Enemy Without -- Chapter 17 Dehumanizing the Slave in the Press -- Chapter 18 The Slave Trade in Hannibal -- Chapter 19 Leaving Hannibal and Taking a Swipe at the Abolitionists -- Chapter 20 The Great Change The Railroad -- Chapter 21 Steamboating Days -- Chapter 22 Sam Clemens Comes Back to Fight -- Postscript -- Appendix -- Selected Bibliography -- Index. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Searching for Jim |
| ISBN: | 0-8262-6439-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825571003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Mark Twain and his circle series.