- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 276 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Democracy's spectacle (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Democracy's spectacle (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2009036158
- OCLC
- ssj0000550846
- Author
Greiman, Jennifer.
- Title
Democracy's spectacle [electronic resource] : sovereignty and public life in antebellum American writing / Jennifer Greiman.
- Imprint
New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
- Edition
1st ed.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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