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UNINA9910457059403321 |
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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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[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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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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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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-259) and index. |
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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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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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UNINA9910781180203321 |
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Coming into contact [[electronic resource] ] : explorations in ecocritical theory and practice / / edited by Annie Merrill Ingram ... [et al.] |
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Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2007 |
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1-282-72617-X |
9786612726170 |
0-8203-3668-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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IngramAnnie Merrill <1961-> |
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Ecology in literature |
American literature - History and criticism |
Environmental literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Human ecology in literature |
Environmental protection in literature |
Nature in literature |
Ecocriticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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; Part one. Who are we? where are we? : exploring the boundaries of ecocriticism -- Of swamp dragons : mud, megalopolis, and a future for ecocriticism / Anthony Lioi -- Challenging the confines : Haiku from the prison camps / Angela Waldie -- Beyond Walden Pond : Asian American literature and the limits of ecocriticism / Robert T. Hayashi -- To name is to claim, or remembering place : Native American writers reclaim the Northeast / Lee Schweninger -- Lynching sites : where trauma and pastoral collide / Daniel J. Martin -- ; Part two. The solid Earth! the actual world! : environmental discourse and practice -- Composition and the rhetoric of eco-effective design / Tim Lindgren -- A mosaic of landscapes : ecological restoration and the work of Leopold, Coetzee, and Silko / James Barilla -- Apocalyptic or |
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precautionary? : revisioning texts in environmental literature / Amy M. Patrick -- Facing the true costs of living : Arundhati Roy and Ishimure Michiko on dams and writing / Bruce Allen --Romanticism and the city : toward a green architecture / Onno Oerlemans -- Annie Dillard and the Book of Job : notes toward a postnatural ecocriticism / David Mazel -- ; Part three. Contact! contact! : interdisciplinary connections -- Seeking common ground : integrating the sciences and the humanities / Laura Dassow Walls -- Mindless fools and leaves that run : subjectivity, politics, and myth in scientific nomenclature / Jennifer C. Wheat -- Reading after Darwin : a prospectus / Michael P. Cohen -- Of spiders, ants, and carnivorous plants : domesticity and Darwin in Mary Treat's Home studies in nature / Tina Gianquitto --The great, shaggy barbaric Earth : geological writings of John Burroughs / Jeff Walker. |
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UNINA9910154306403321 |
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Autore |
Weber Cynthia |
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Queer international relations : sovereignty, sexuality and the will to knowledge |
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New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
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Oxford studies in gender and international relations Queer international relations |
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International relations - Social aspects |
Queer theory |
Marginality, Social |
Human rights |
International Relations |
Law, Politics & Government |
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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 bibliographic references and index. |
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"This book puts International Relations scholarship and Queer Studies scholarship in conversation to tell a story about how sovereignty and |
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sexuality are entangled in international relations theory and policy through numerous figurations of 'the homosexual' - as 'the underdeveloped', 'the un-developable', 'the unwanted im/migrant', 'the terrorist', 'the gay rights holder', 'the gay patriot' and Eurovision-winner Conchita Wurst's 'bearded lady'"-- $c Provided by publisher. |
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