Democracy's Spectacle : Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing /

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"What is the hangman but a servant of law? And what is that law but an expression of public opinion? And if public opinion be brutal and thou a component part thereof, art thou not the hangman's accomplice?" Writing in 1842, Lydia Maria Child articulates a crisis in the relationship o...

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Autor principal: Greiman, Jennifer (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2011]
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism > 19th century.
Democracy.
Literature and society.
Politics and literature.
American Studies.
Literary Studies.
Philosophy & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. "The thing is new": Sovereignty and Slavery in Democracy in America
  • 2. Color, Race, and the Spectacle of Opinion in Beaumont's Marie
  • 3. "The Hangman's Accomplice": Spectacle and Complicity in Lydia Maria Child's New York
  • 4. The Spectacle of Reform: Theater and Prison in Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance
  • 5. Theatricality, Strangeness, and Democracy in Melville's Confidence-Man
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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