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Democracy's spectacle : sovereignty and public life in antebellum American writing / Jennifer Greiman.
LIBRA PS217.P64 G74 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greiman, Jennifer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Politics and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Democracy--Psychological aspects.
- Democracy.
- United States.
- History.
- Democracy in literature.
- Sovereignty in literature.
- Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780823230990
- 0823230996
- OCLC:
- 326418433
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