Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Author:   Lara Langer Cohen
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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9781478016847


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   20 January 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Lara Langer Cohen
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781478016847


ISBN 10:   1478016841
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   20 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  vii Introduction: A Basement Shut Off and Forgotten during the Nineteenth Century  1 1. The “Blackness of Darkness” in Mammoth Cave  25 2. Early Black Radical Undergrounds  46 3. The Underground Railroad’s Undergrounds  74 4. The Depths of Astonishment: City Mysteries and Subterranean Unknowability  104 5. “To Drop beneath the Floors of the Outer World”: Paschal Beverly Randolph’s Occult Undergrounds  133 6. Subterranean Fire: Anarchist Visions of the Underground  166 Epilogue: Staying Underground  198 Notes  205 Bibliography  245 Index  267

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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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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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