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Going Underground
Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
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.
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“The details that Going Underground recovers establish the underground as a significant site of 19th-century American thought and will certainly interest readers concerned with histories of race, literature, and the political imagination. By following where the subterranean leads, Cohen highlights overlooked thinkers such as [Paschal Beverly] Randolph while offering fresh perspectives on well-known figures and scenes.”
-- Madeline Zehnder Public Books
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: a basement shut off and forgotten during the nineteenth century
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1 The “Blackness of Darkness” in Mammoth Cave
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2 Early Black Radical Undergrounds
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3 The Underground Railroad’s Undergrounds
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4 The Depths of Astonishment: city mysteries and subterranean unknowability
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5 “ To Drop beneath the Floors of the Outer World” paschal Beverly Randolph’s occult undergrounds
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6 Subterranean Fire: anarchist visions of the underground
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Epilogue: staying underground
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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December 16, 2022
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9781478024125
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288
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Professional and scholarly;
