Democracy's spectacle
Subtitle: sovereignty and public life in antebellum American writing
By: Jennifer Greiman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780823230990
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index.
Table of contents: title: "The thing is new": sovereignty and slavery in Democracy in America; title: Color, race, and the spectacle of opinion in Beaumont's Marie; title: "The hangman's accomplice": spectacle and complicity in Lydia Maria Child's New York; title: The spectacle of reform: theater and prison in Hawthorne's Blithedale romance; title: Theatricality, strangeness, and democracy in Melville's Confidence-man.