LEADER 04411nam 22007812 450 001 9910453039403321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-23692-4 010 $a1-139-85423-2 010 $a1-139-23564-8 010 $a1-139-84515-2 010 $a1-139-84041-X 010 $a1-139-84279-X 010 $a1-139-84602-7 010 $a1-283-74665-4 010 $a1-139-84160-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000708515 035 $a(EBL)1057534 035 $a(OCoLC)818883427 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000756588 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11420956 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756588 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10751766 035 $a(PQKB)11379208 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139235648 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1057534 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1057534 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10621709 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL405915 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000708515 100 $a20120123d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe poetics of sovereignty in American literature, 1885-1910 /$fAndrew Hebard, Miami University of Ohio$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 204 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v165 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-02806-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 'an empire of letters' -- 'Like a disembodied shade': popular romances and the American imperial state -- Styling territory: Mark Twain and the 'stupendous joke' of imperial sovereignty -- 'Twisted from the ordinary': naturalism, sovereignty, and the conventions of Chinese exclusion -- Acts of lawless discretion: Westerns and the Plenary Administration of Native Americans -- Romance and riot: Charles Chesnutt and the conventions of extralegal violence in the Jim Crow South. 330 $aDuring the Progressive Era, the United States regularly suspended its own laws to regulate racialized populations. Judges and administrators relied on the rhetoric of sovereignty to justify such legal practices, while in American popular culture, sovereignty helped authors coin tropes that have become synonymous with American exceptionalism today. In this book, Andrew Hebard challenges the notion of sovereignty as a 'state of exception' in American jurisprudence and literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Hebard explores how literary trends such as romance and realism helped conventionalize, and thereby sanction, the federal government's use of sovereignty in a range of foreign and domestic policy matters, including the regulation of overseas colonies, immigration, Native American lands, and extra-legal violence in the American South. Weaving historiography with close readings of Mark Twain, the Western, and other hallmarks of Progressive Era literature, Hebard's study offers a new cultural context for understanding the legal history of race relations in the United States. 410 0$aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v165. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSovereignty in literature 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLaw and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLaw and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSovereignty in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aLaw and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLaw and literature$xHistory 676 $a810.9/004 700 $aHebard$b Andrew$01047537 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453039403321 996 $aThe poetics of sovereignty in American literature, 1885-1910$92475130 997 $aUNINA