Democracy's spectacle : sovereignty and public life in antebellum American writing /
Drawing on Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, along with work by Gustave de Beaumont, Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, Greiman tracks the crises of sovereign power as it migrates out of the state to become a constitutive feature of the public sphere. Bring...
| Основен автор: | Greiman, Jennifer. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Fordham University Press,
2010.
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| Издание: | 1st ed. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=395519 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Democracy's spectacle. |
| Резюме: |
Drawing on Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, along with work by Gustave de Beaumont, Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, Greiman tracks the crises of sovereign power as it migrates out of the state to become a constitutive feature of the public sphere. Bringing together literature and political theory, she argues that the antebellum public sphere emerges as a spectacle with investments in both punishment and entertainment. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xi, 276 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780823241156 0823241157 9780823247684 0823247686 |