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This book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature. This ster
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Few concepts are more widely discussed or more passionately invoked in American public culture than the concept of priva
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Michael Drescher analyzes national mythologies in American and German literature. He focuses on processes of mythologica
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Drawing on a rich archive of magazine fiction, verse satires, comic almanacs, false slave narratives, minstrel song-shee
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Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation examines the writing of catastrophe, mass d
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Few concepts are more widely discussed or more passionately
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First published in 1979, this volume offers students and teachers a unique view of American history prior to the Civil W
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The United States set about defining and reforming its criminal justice institutions during the antebellum years, just a
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Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature argues for the existence of deep, often unexamin
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