Democracy's Spectacle(1st Edition) Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing (American Literatures Initiative) by JenniferGreiman Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2010 by Fordham University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-3099-0, ISBN: 0-8232-3099-6
"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 of democracy to sovereign power that continues to occupy political theory today. Is sovereignty, with its reliance on singular and exceptional power, fundament ..."
The Last Western(1st Edition) Deadwood and the End of American Empire by JenniferGreiman, Paul Stasi, Greiman/Stasi Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2012 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-2630-6, ISBN: 1-4411-2630-9
"Perhaps the most sophisticated and complex of shows in Hbo's recent history, Deadwood has surprisingly little coverage in our current scholarship. Grounding contemporary anxieties about race and class, domesticity and American exceptionalism in its nineteenth-century setting, Deadwood revises our understanding of a formative period for the American nation through a re-examination of one of the main genres through which this national sto ..."
Democracy's Spectacle(1st Edition) Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing (American Literatures Initiative) by JenniferGreiman Paperback, 292 Pages, Published 2010 by Fordham University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-3100-3, ISBN: 0-8232-3100-3
""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 of democracy to sovereign power that continues to occupy political theory today. Is sovereignty, with its reliance on singular and exceptional power, fundam ..."
The Last Western Deadwood and the End of American Empire (Hardback) by JenniferGreiman, The- Last Western Hardcover, Published 2013 by Continuum Publishing Corporation, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-6458-2, ISBN: 1-4411-6458-8
"Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of identity and race appear through imaging technologies in architecture, scientific discourse, sculpture, photography, painting, music, theater, and, finally, the twenty-first century visual commentary of Kara Walker. Throughout these essays, the racial practices of the nineteenth century are j ..."
The Last Western Deadwood and the End of American Empire by Paul Stasi, JenniferGreiman 224 Pages, Published 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-2652-8, ISBN: 1-4411-2652-X
"Soon after his confrontation with Wolcott, Utter discusses the subject with Seth
Bullock: Utter: I'd best go, lest Mr. Amalgamation and Capital take one through
the fucking head. Bullock: What's the import of that expression? Utter: Do I look
like I fucking know? Some big-shot eastern magazine reporter interviewing Bill
said that was what's changing things around. Jane, I don't know what's going to
come of fucking Jane. Bullock: I' ..."
The Last Western Deadwood and the End of American Empire by JenniferGreiman, Paul Stasi 224 Pages, Published 2012 by A&C Black ISBN-13: 978-1-4411-5114-8, ISBN: 1-4411-5114-1
"9 10 11 12 13 14 Richard W. Slatta, “Making and Unmaking Myths of the
American Frontier,” European Journal ofAmerican Culture 29.2 (2010): 88. Amy
Kaplan, “Manifest Domesticity,” American Literature 70.3 (1998): 581 and 585.
David Milch ... in Richard W. Slatta, “Making and Unmaking Myths,” 85. Kaplan, “
Manifest Domesticity,” 582. Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending: Studies in
the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue (New York: ..."
Democracy's Spectacle Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing by JenniferGreiman 292 Pages, Published 2010 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-3101-0, ISBN: 0-8232-3101-1
"Even recent critics, like Nathan Glazer and Gerard Fergerson, who appreciate
Beaumont's concern with social issues, tend to see its importance only in its
relation to Tocqueville's omissions. Glazer is particularly patronizing, arguing that
..."
Democracy's Spectacle Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing by JenniferGreiman 289 Pages, Published 2010 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-4165-1, ISBN: 0-8232-4165-3
"Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing Jennifer Greiman ...
If Beaumont's text labors under the shadow of Tocqueville's, it is not entirely the
fault of critics and historians, who for more than a ... Beaumont himself
inaugurates the tradition of relegating Marie—with its fictional form and singular
focus—to secondary status. ... lens of race, a concept which he first comes to
understand when he witnesses the ha ..."
Melville's Democracy(1st Edition) Radical Figuration and Political Form by Greiman, Jennifer Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 2023 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-3332-2, ISBN: 1-5036-3332-2