Democracy's Spectacle : : Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing / / Jennifer Greiman.
"What is the hangman but a servant of law? And what is that law but an expression of public opinion? And if public opinion be brutal and thou a component part thereof, art thou not the hangman's accomplice?" Writing in 1842, Lydia Maria Child articulates a crisis in the relationship o...
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. “The thing is new”: Sovereignty and Slavery in Democracy in America
- 2. Color, Race, and the Spectacle of Opinion in Beaumont’s Marie
- 3. “The Hangman’s Accomplice”: Spectacle and Complicity in Lydia Maria Child’s New York
- 4. The Spectacle of Reform: Theater and Prison in Hawthorne’s Blithedale Romance
- 5. Theatricality, Strangeness, and Democracy in Melville’s Confidence-Man
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index