001479241 000__ 05134nam\a22010935i\4500 001479241 001__ 1479241 001479241 003__ DE-B1597 001479241 005__ 20231102084227.0 001479241 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479241 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479241 008__ 190708s2013\\\\mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479241 020__ $$a9780674075849 001479241 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674075849$$2doi 001479241 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)209810 001479241 035__ $$a(OCoLC)831625475 001479241 035__ $$a(OCoLC)979953955 001479241 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479241 0410_ $$aeng 001479241 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479241 050_4 $$aPS169.L37$$bS63 2013 001479241 072_7 $$aLIT004020$$2bisacsh 001479241 1001_ $$aSmith, Caleb,$$eauthor. 001479241 24514 $$aThe Oracle and the Curse :$$bA Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War /$$cCaleb Smith. 001479241 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c[2013] 001479241 264_4 $$c©2013 001479241 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479241 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479241 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479241 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479241 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479241 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$tContents --$$tPreface --$$tIntroduction --$$t1 Oracles of Law --$$t2 Oracles of God --$$t3 Blasphemy "At the Court of Hell" --$$t4 Evil Speaking, "A Bridle for the Unbridled Tongue" --$$t5 The Curse of Slavery --$$t6 Words of Fire --$$tEpilogue --$$tNotes --$$tAcknowledgments --$$tIndex 001479241 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479241 520__ $$aCondemned to hang after his raid on Harper's Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown's shaped American literature between the Revolution and the Civil War. In nineteenth-century criminal trials, judges played the role of law's living oracles, but offenders were also given an opportunity to address the public. When the accused began to turn the tables on their judges, they did so not through rational arguments but by calling down a divine retribution. Widely circulated in newspapers and pamphlets, these curses appeared to channel an otherworldly power, condemning an unjust legal system and summoning readers to the side of righteousness. Exploring the modes of address that communicated the authority of law and the dictates of conscience in antebellum America's court of public opinion, Caleb Smith offers a new poetics of justice which assesses the nonrational influence that these printed confessions, trial reports, and martyr narratives exerted on their first audiences. Smith shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature. 001479241 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479241 546__ $$aIn English. 001479241 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. 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