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  1. Going underground
    race, space, and the subterranean in the nineteenth-century United States
    Autor*in: Cohen, Lara Langer
    Erschienen: [2023]; © 2023
    Verlag:  Duke University Press, Durham ; London

    First popularized by newspaper coverage of the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, the underground serves as a metaphor for subversive activity that remains central to our political vocabulary. In Going Underground, Lara Langer Cohen excavates the... mehr

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    Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
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    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe

     

    First popularized by newspaper coverage of the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, the underground serves as a metaphor for subversive activity that remains central to our political vocabulary. In Going Underground, Lara Langer Cohen excavates the long history of this now familiar idea while seeking out versions of the underground that were left behind along the way. Outlining how the underground's figurative sense first took shape through the associations of literal subterranean spaces with racialized Blackness, she examines a vibrant world of nineteenth-century US subterranean literature that includes Black radical manifestos, anarchist periodicals, sensationalist exposes of the urban underworld, manuals for sex magic, and the initiation rites of secret societies. Cohen finds that the undergrounds in this literature offer sites of political possibility that exceed the familiar framework of resistance, suggesting that nineteenth-century undergrounds can inspire new modes of world-making and world-breaking for a time when this world feels increasingly untenable

     
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  2. 'Perpetual scriptures' in nineteenth century America
    literary, religious, and political quests for textual authority
    Autor*in: Smith, Jeff
    Erschienen: 2023
    Verlag:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York ; London

    "In the tumultuous decades of rapid expansion and change before the Civil War, Americans confronted a cluster of overlapping crises whose common theme was the difficulty of finding authority in written texts. Putting religious and literary studies in... mehr

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe

     

    "In the tumultuous decades of rapid expansion and change before the Civil War, Americans confronted a cluster of overlapping crises whose common theme was the difficulty of finding authority in written texts. Putting religious and literary studies in conversation, Jeff Smith presents key features of the writings, careers, and cultural politics of several prominent figures as responses to these 19th-century textual challenges. "Perpetual Scriptures" in Nineteenth-Century America explores several disruptive developments arrayed around the issue of textual authority: rising challenges to the traditional authority of the Bible; persistent worries over America's lack of a "national literature" and an independent national cultural identity; clashing interpretations of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as they gradually became a kind of quasi-sacred secular canon; and, from the opposite direction, the rapid emergence of a new print culture that put a premium on mass-produced text that was immediate and urgent, but often unreliable. In so doing, Smith analyzes varied attempts to vindicate the sacred and merge the timeless with the immediate by religious and political leaders such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Smith, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln. These men and women of letters helped define American literary culture as an ongoing quest for what Emerson called "a perpetual scripture," or new modes of written expression with high authority like the Bible's, but rooted in the real, ongoing experience of the nation and its people. This study ties together various movements and projects to show what was distinctively American about them and what they reveal about the inherent problems and limits of textual authority."

     
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