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- catalog abstract ""In this study, Stephen John Hartnett explores the "cultural fictions" that accompanied and undergirded public debates in antebellum America regarding abolition and capitalism, race and slavery, manifest destiny and empire, and representation and self-making." "Drawing on a rich array of persuasive materials - including speeches and debates, novels and poems, newspaper articles and advertisements, daguerreotypes and paintings, protest pamphlets, reform manifestos, and scientific reports - Hartnett investigates how cultural fictions were presented, how they reflected or exploited larger cultural norms, and why some were more persuasive than others."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Democratic dissent and the cultural fictions of antebellum America".
- catalog contributor b12471023.
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1845-1861.".
- catalog coverage "United States Territorial expansion History 19th century.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""In this study, Stephen John Hartnett explores the "cultural fictions" that accompanied and undergirded public debates in antebellum America regarding abolition and capitalism, race and slavery, manifest destiny and empire, and representation and self-making." "Drawing on a rich array of persuasive materials - including speeches and debates, novels and poems, newspaper articles and advertisements, daguerreotypes and paintings, protest pamphlets, reform manifestos, and scientific reports - Hartnett investigates how cultural fictions were presented, how they reflected or exploited larger cultural norms, and why some were more persuasive than others."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-220) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Cultural Fictions and the Rhetorical Work of Humble Irony -- 1. The Dialectics of Assent and Dissent, Yankee Ingenuity, and the Rhetorical Politics of Abolitionism -- 2. Proslavery Cultural Fictions, White Fear, and the Rhetoric of Serious Evils -- 3. Senator Robert Walker's Letter on Texas Annexation, The South in Danger, and the Rhetoric of Manifest Destiny -- 4. Whitman's Pose, the Daguerreotype, and the Dialectics of Commodification, Self-Making, and Democracy -- Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Democratic Representation.".
- catalog extent "x, 230 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0252027221 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1845-1861.".
- catalog spatial "United States Territorial expansion History 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973.6 21".
- catalog subject "Antislavery movements United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Capitalism Political aspects United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Democracy United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "E415.7 .H34 2002".
- catalog subject "Identity politics United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, American.".
- catalog subject "Propaganda United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric Political aspects United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Slavery Political aspects United States History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Cultural Fictions and the Rhetorical Work of Humble Irony -- 1. The Dialectics of Assent and Dissent, Yankee Ingenuity, and the Rhetorical Politics of Abolitionism -- 2. Proslavery Cultural Fictions, White Fear, and the Rhetoric of Serious Evils -- 3. Senator Robert Walker's Letter on Texas Annexation, The South in Danger, and the Rhetoric of Manifest Destiny -- 4. Whitman's Pose, the Daguerreotype, and the Dialectics of Commodification, Self-Making, and Democracy -- Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Democratic Representation.".
- catalog title "Democratic dissent & the cultural fictions of antebellum America / Stephen John Hartnett.".
- catalog title "Democratic dissent and the cultural fictions of antebellum America".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".