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Greiman, Jennifer.

Democracy's Spectacle Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing / [Recurso electrónico] : Jennifer Greiman. - 1st ed. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xi, 276 p. ) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index.

"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.

Libro Electrónico

ISBN: 9780823241651

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Democracy--Psychological aspects.
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Sovereignty in literature.
Democracy in literature.
Politics and literature--History--United States--19th century.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS217.P64 / G74 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9/358735