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Autore |
Reiss Benjamin |
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Titolo |
The showman and the slave [[electronic resource] ] : race, death, and memory in Barnum's America / / Benjamin Reiss |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010 |
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Edizione |
[1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century |
Women slaves - United States |
Freak shows - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century |
Whites - Race identity - United States |
African Americans in popular culture - History - 19th century |
Racism in popular culture - United States - History - 19th century |
Death in popular culture - United States - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
Northeastern States Race relations |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-259) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- AckrunvZedgments -- Introduction: The Dark Subject -- 1. DEATH AND DYING -- 1. Possession -- 2. The Celebrated Curiosity -- 3. Private Acts, Public Memories -- 4. Sacred and Profane -- 5. Culture Wars -- 6. Love, Automata, and India Rubber -- 7. Spectacle -- II. RESURRECTION -- 8. Authenticity and Commodity -- 9. Exposure and Mastery -- 10. Erasure -- III. LIFE -- 11. A Speculative Biography -- Note to the 2010 Printing -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly emerging commercial press turned her act--and especially her death--into one of the first media spectacles in American |
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