Quiet Testimony : A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature / Shari Goldberg.
Goldberg, Shari, author.
2013
PS217.W55 G65 2013
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Title Quiet Testimony : A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature / Shari Goldberg.
Author Goldberg, Shari, author.
ISBN 9780823254798
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823254798
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (208 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823254798 doi
Call Number PS217.W55 G65 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9/382
Summary The nineteenth century was a time of extraordinary attunement to the unspoken, the elusively present, and the subtly haunting. Quiet Testimony finds in such attunement a valuable rethinking of what it means to encounter the truth. It argues that four key writers-Emerson, Douglass, Melville, and Henry James-open up the domain of the witness by articulating quietude's claim on the clamoring world.The premise of quiet testimony responds to urgent questions in critical theory and human rights. Emerson is brought into conversation with Levinas, and Douglass is considered alongside Agamben. Yet the book is steeped in the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, in which speech and meaning might exceed the bounds of the recognized human subject. In this context, Melville's characters could read the weather, and James's could spend an evening with dead companions.By following the path by which ostensibly unremarkable entities come to voice, Quiet Testimony suggests new configurations for ethics, politics, and the literary.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Arriving at Quiet
1. Emerson: Testimony without Representation
2. Douglass: Testimony without Identity
3. Melville: Testimony without Voice
4. James: Testimony without Life
Conclusion: Staying Quiet
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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