A Spectacular Secret
Lynching in American Life and Literature
384 pages, 26 halftones 6 x 9
©
2006
Cloth $67.00
ISBN: 9780226301372
Published August 2006
Paper $25.00
ISBN: 9780226301389
Published August 2006
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. A Sign of the Times: Lynching and Its Cultural Logic
2. Writing "Dynamitically": Ida B. Wells
3. "The Drift of the Public Mind": Stephen Crane
4. Lynching's Mass Appeal and the "Terrible Real": James Weldon Johnson
5. Through a Different Lens: Lynching Photography at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
6. In the Mind's Eye
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
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