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Item Restricted Arguments; The Turner thesis(1968) Thelwell, MichaelItem Restricted Books; Blackash ; The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron(1968) Coles, RobertItem Open Access The Jester and the Sage: Twain and Nietzsche(University of California Press, 2005) Brahm, G. N.; Robinson, F. G.Though Mark Twain and Friedrich Nietzsche were aware of each other, they never met and there is no evidence of influence in either direction. Yet the similarities in their thought are strikingly numerous and close. They were both penetrating psychologists who shared Sigmund Freud's interest in the unconscious and his misgiving about the future of civilization. Both regarded Christianity as a leading symptom of the world's madness, manifest in a slavish morality of good and evil and in a widespread subjection to irrational guilt. They were at one in lamenting the pervasive human surrender to varieties of evasion, disavowel, deceit, and self-deception. Other, lesser similarities abound in thought, style, and patterns of literary production. © 2005 by The Regents of the University of California.Item Open Access The relevance of Giuseppe Mazzini's ideas of insurgency to the American slavery crisis of the 1850s(Oxford University Press, 2012) Roberts, Timothy M.This chapter discusses Mazzini's influence in the context of the slavery crisis of the 1850s in the United States. That decade, which saw a crisis erupt in Kansas over the question of whether slavery should be allowed to expand, ended dramatically at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, where the violent abolitionist John Brown led a doomed attempt to arm and liberate slaves. Mazzini studied, wrote about, and on occasion attempted to enact popular insurrection and guerilla warfare. His ideas became essential to Brown's ideology and actions, which precipitated the Civil War. The chapter suggests an under-appreciated aspect of Mazzini's influence in America, invites a reassessment of the American sectional crisis of the 1850s for its transatlantic dimensions, and proposes a sobering but important dimension to the historical path of the spread of democratic nationalism.Item Restricted Rewiews; The quiddities of detail(1968) Harnack, CurtisItem Restricted Styron's unwritten novel(1968) Kauffmann, Stanley