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Democracy's spectacle : sovereignty and public life in antebellum American writing
- Title
- Democracy's spectacle : sovereignty and public life in antebellum American writing / Jennifer Greiman.
- Author
- Greiman, Jennifer.
- Publication
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 10-2523 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 276 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-2523
- ISBN
- 9780823230990 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0823230996 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009036158
- OCLC
- YBP 2009036158
- Author
- Greiman, Jennifer.
- Title
- Democracy's spectacle : sovereignty and public life in antebellum American writing / Jennifer Greiman.
- Imprint
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-2523