Cast Down : Abjection in America, 1700-1850.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (239 pages)
- Early American Studies .
- Early American Studies .
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.