Realist Ecstasy : : Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature / / Lindsay V. Reckson.

Explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment. Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American realism, Realist Ecstasy travels from camp meetings to Native American ghos...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]
©2020
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Performance and American Cultures ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 22 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Being Beside
  • 1. Reconstructing Secularisms
  • 2. Archival Enthusiasm
  • 3. The Ghost Dance and Realism’s Techno- Spiritual Frontier
  • 4. Touching a Button
  • 5. Born, Again
  • Coda: Behind, Before, Beside
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author