Democratic Dissent and the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America

by Stephen John Hartnett

In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, Stephen John Hartnett explores the "cultural fictions" that accompanied and undergirded public debates in antebellum America regarding abolition and capitalism, race and slavery, manifest destiny and empire, and representation and self-making.

Drawing on a rich array of persuasive materials--including speeches and debates, novels and poems, newspaper articles and advertisements, daguerreotypes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252027221
• ISBN13: 9780252027222
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"