Democracy's spectacle : sovereignty and public life in antebellum American writing /

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Drawing on Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, along with work by Gustave de Beaumont, Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, Greiman tracks the crises of sovereign power as it migrates out of the state to become a constitutive feature of the public sphere. Bring...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Greiman, Jennifer (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Geschichte 1800-1865.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Democracy in literature.
Sovereignty in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Democracy > Psychological aspects.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Politique et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Souveraineté dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
American literature.
Literature and society.
Politics and literature.
Literatur
Gesellschaftsleben > Motiv
Klassenbewusstsein > Motiv
Rassenfrage > Motiv
Politik > Motiv
United States.
USA.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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