Quiet testimony [electronic resource] : a theory of witnessing from nineteenth-century American literature / Shari Goldberg.
Publication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 197 pISBN:- 9780823254774 (cloth : alk. paper)
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- PS217.W55 G65 2013eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Arriving at quiet -- Emerson: testimony without representation -- Douglass: testimony without identity -- Melville: testimony without voice -- James: testimony without life -- Conclusion: Staying quiet.
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