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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Temple University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823231010
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Democracy's SpectacleDDC classification:
  • 810.9/358735
LOC classification:
  • PS217.P64.G745 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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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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