Shari Goldberg: 1 book
Quiet Testimony
A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary attunement to the unspoken, the elusively present, and the subtly haunting. Quiet Testimony finds in such attunement a valuable rethinking of what it means to encounter the truth. It argues that four key writers—Emerson, Douglass, Melville, and...
