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
ISBN-13: 9780823230990
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Democracy in literature; Sovereignty in literature; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Democracy -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thing is new: sovereignty and slavery in democracy in America; title: Color, race, and the spectacle of opinion in Beaumont's Marie; title: Hangman's accomplice: spectacle and complicity in Lydia Maria Child's New York; title: Spectacle of reform: theater and prison in Hawthorne's Blithedale romance; title: Theatricality, strangeness, and democracy in Melville's Confidence-man.