... Charles Melville Herman money and wealth social inequality Spires Derrick Brodhead Richard Convention of Colored Freemen 1848 Sundquist Eric Frederick Douglass Harriet Beecher Stowe Martin Delany Charles Chesnutt slavery racism eavesdropping interiority money white supremacy Melville...

... to both Melville and Frederick Douglass as a figure for political inevitability and necessity. However, it also introduces contingencies for political actions and actors that cannot be prophesied. In the final story of The Piazza Tales and throughout the poems of Battle Pieces, gravity becomes both a mood...

... physiognomy and phrenology Cooper James Fenimore sentimental fiction Austen Jane Fiedler Leslie Lawrence D H gendered mindreading and literacy women Charles Brockden Brown metaphor interiority consciousness Edgar Allan Poe Frederick Douglass Henry James Charles Chesnutt James Fenimore Cooper...