Quiet testimony : a theory of witnessing from nineteenth-century American literature / Shari Goldberg.
The nineteenth century may have been the age of "our talking America," as Emerson put it, but it was also a time of extraordinary attunement to the unspoken, the elusively present, and the subtly haunting. This book finds in such attunement a valuable rethinking of what it means to encount...
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