Liberalism, theology, and the performative in antebellum American literature / Patrick McDonald.
"The 1850s United States witnessed a far-reaching political, social, and economic crisis. Symptomatic of this, a wide-range of narrative fiction from sentimental novels to sensational drama identifies a foundational link between liberal institutions and performative utterances. Auctions, trials...
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2024.
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Table of Contents:
- "Sometimes a real one!": mock marriage, performative utterances, and liberal politics in antebellum city mysteries fiction
- Auction goers or lynch mobs?: authority and representation in The Quadroon and The Octoroon
- Republican simplicity on trial: courtrooms, aesthetics, and the law
- Contracts without covenants?: political authority in Moby-Dick and The confidence man
- Political theology in crisis: Orestes Brownson between Hobbes and Schmitt.