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Books by Jennifer Greiman






Democracy's Spectacle(1st Edition)
Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing (American Literatures Initiative)
by Jennifer Greiman
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 Jennifer Greiman, 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 Jennifer Greiman
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 Jennifer Greiman, 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
by Shirley Samuels, Kirsten Pai Buick, Irene Cheng, Martha J. Cutter, Brigitte Fielder, Jennifer Greiman, Wyn Kelley, Kya Mangrum, Kelli Morgan, Janet Neary, Adena Spingarn, Cheryl Spinner, Christine Yao
Hardcover, 238 Pages, Published 2019 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7311-5, ISBN: 1-4985-7311-8

"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, Jennifer Greiman
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 Jennifer Greiman, 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 Jennifer Greiman
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 Jennifer Greiman
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






Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States
(Paperback)
by Shirley Samuels, Kirsten Pai Buick, Irene Cheng, Martha J. Cutter, Brigitte Fielder
Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 2023 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7313-9, ISBN: 1-4985-7313-4






Society, Space, and Social Justice
Geographies of Intersectionality
by Pomeroy, Jennifer Y., Wadhwa, Vandana, Alcorn, Caitlin M., Cecchi, Luis Emilio, Eliot, Emmanuel, Greiman, Lillie, Kondabolu, Poojitha, Ravesloot, Craig, Sage, Rayna, Samarasinghe, Vidyamali, Yogev, Yonit
Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2023 by Lexington Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-9482-0, ISBN: 1-4985-9482-4

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