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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.

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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      Publisher Duke University Press
      Published 20 January 2023
      ISBN-13 9781478019480
      978-1478019480
      ISBN-10 1478019484
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      Social and cultural history Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

      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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