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 |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2010.
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| Издание: | 1st ed. |
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Democracy's spectacle. |
Съдържание:
- "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.