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

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Greiman, Jennifer
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Democracy > Psychological aspects.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Sovereignty in literature.
Democracy in literature.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "The thing is new": sovereignty and slavery in Democracy in America
  • Color, race, and the spectacle of opinion in Beaumont's Marie
  • "The hangman's accomplice": spectacle and complicity in Lydia Maria Child's New York
  • The spectacle of reform: theater and prison in Hawthorne's Blithedale romance
  • Theatricality, strangeness, and democracy in Melville's Confidence-man.

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