A Phrenological Assesment of Rebecca Harding Davis’s Sketch, “Blind Tom”
In this essay, I examine how the nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon of phrenology is made apparent in the abolitionist arguments of Rebecca Harding Davis’s “Blind Tom” (1862), a nonfiction character sketch of the popular blind slave and idiot savant-musician. The first portion of my argument con...
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ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University
2013
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Online Access: | http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_theses/161 http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1161&context=english_theses |