Democracy's Spectacle : Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing.
Greiman, Jennifer.
Democracy's Spectacle : Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (289 pages)
Cover -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Z.
No detailed description available for "Democracy's Spectacle".
9780823231010
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS217.P64.G745 2010
810.9/358735
Democracy's Spectacle : Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (289 pages)
Cover -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Z.
No detailed description available for "Democracy's Spectacle".
9780823231010
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS217.P64.G745 2010
810.9/358735