The Oracle and the Curse : : A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War /

The Oracle and the Curse : : A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War / / Caleb Smith.

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Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper's Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown's shaped American...

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Superior document:	Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
VerfasserIn:	Smith, Caleb,
Place / Publishing House:	Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©2013
Any de publicació:	2013
Idioma:	English
Accés en línia:	https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674075849 Cover
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