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Cast Down : Abjection in America, 1700-1850.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Early American StudiesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (239 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812292640
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cast DownDDC classification:
  • 261.7097309/033
LOC classification:
  • E162.M555 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. From Roses to Neuroses -- Chapter 1. Conversion, Suffering, and Publicity -- Chapter 2. Indian Abjection in the Public Sphere -- Chapter 3. The Martyrology of White Abolitionists -- Chapter 4. Masochism, Minstrelsy, and Liberal Revolution -- Epilogue. Child Pets, Melville's Pip, and Oriental Blackness -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: In Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850, Mark J. Miller argues that transatlantic Protestant discourses of abjection engaged with, and furthered the development of, concepts of race and sexuality in the creation of public subjects and public spheres.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. From Roses to Neuroses -- Chapter 1. Conversion, Suffering, and Publicity -- Chapter 2. Indian Abjection in the Public Sphere -- Chapter 3. The Martyrology of White Abolitionists -- Chapter 4. Masochism, Minstrelsy, and Liberal Revolution -- Epilogue. Child Pets, Melville's Pip, and Oriental Blackness -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments.

In Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850, Mark J. Miller argues that transatlantic Protestant discourses of abjection engaged with, and furthered the development of, concepts of race and sexuality in the creation of public subjects and public spheres.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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