The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885-1910

by Andrew Hebard

During the Progressive Era, the United States regularly suspended its own laws to regulate racialized populations. Judges and administrators relied on the rhetoric of sovereignty to justify such legal practices, while in American popular culture, sovereignty helped authors coin tropes that have become synonymous with American exceptionalism today. In this book, Andrew Hebard challenges the notion of sovereignty as a "state of exception" in American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110702806X
• ISBN13: 9781107028067
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"