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work_ipcuo6tmnje6nf7vbp5xruoypi	Charles J. G. Griffin	John Brown's "Madness"	2009.0	21	.pdf	application/pdf	9855	645	65	This essay explores how divergent interpretations of John Brown's alleged "madness" that popular characterizations of Brown illustrate that "madness" can serve a number of rhetorical functions in the civic sphere. of insanity in the mid-nineteenth century invited three metonymic interpretations of the origins of Brown's "madness"—and hence of the larger signifi cance of "madness" in the aftermath of the Harper's Ferry Raid defi ned the meaning mid-nineteenth century invited three metonymical interpretations of the origins of Brown's "madness"—and hence of the larger signifi cance of his actions: For a third group of contemporary observers, Brown's "madness" signifi ed something altogether different: paradoxical proof that the civic sphere itself had grown dangerously Soul Goes Marching On: Responses to John Brown and the Harper's Ferry Raid (Charlotte: McGlone, "John Brown, Henry Wise, and the Politics of Insanity," in Finkleman, McGlone, "John Brown, Henry Wise, and the Politics of Insanity," in Finkleman, ed., His Soul 	./cache/work_ipcuo6tmnje6nf7vbp5xruoypi.pdf	./txt/work_ipcuo6tmnje6nf7vbp5xruoypi.txt