The Afterlife of John Brown

Black People's Ally, White People's Bogeyman: A John Brown Story - Louis A. DeCaro, Jr. * "The blood of millions": John Brown's Body, Public Violence, and Political Community - Franny Nudelman * John Brown, Bearded Patriarch - Jean Libby * "Earth Feels the Time of Prophet-Song": John Brown and Public Poetry - Joe Lockard * Consenting to Violence: Henry David Thoreau, John Brown, and the Transcendent Intellectual - Andrew Taylor * Transforming the "Madman into a Saint": The Cultural Memory Site of John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry in Anti-Slavery Literature and History - Kristen Proehl * Meteor of War: The John Brown Cycle - John Stauffer and Zoe Trodd * Transatlantic Spartacus - Janine C. Hartman * W.E.B. Du Bois's John Brown: Placing Racial Justice at the Center of a Socialist Politics - Julie Husband * "I see your mouth calling/before the words arrive": Muriel Rukeyser's "The Soul and Body of John Brown" and Thirties America - Bruce A. Ronda * John Brown and Children's Literature -Tyler Hoffman * More Heat than Light: The Legacy of John Brown as Portrayed in Cloudsplitter - Kimberley Connor

"The Afterlife of John Brown is an intelligent and searching enquiry into the contemporary and posthumous reception of the abolitionist John Brown's life, political activism, and death. It helps us to see how divergent, complex, and troubling were the issues that Brown's clarity of purpose posed to an American culture - white and black, Northern and Southern - which found it difficult to live with moral clarity." - Michael O'Brien, University of Cambridge

Andrew Taylor is a Lecturer in American Literature, University of Edinburgh. Eldrid Herrington is an Assistant Professor of English, University College Dublin.