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LEADER: 02347cam 2200373 a 4500
001 2001004111
003 DLC
005 20050204200555.0
008 010711s2002 ilua b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2001004111
020 $a0252027221 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aE415.7$b.H34 2002
082 00 $a973.6$221
100 1 $aHartnett, Stephen J.
245 10 $aDemocratic dissent & the cultural fictions of antebellum America /$cStephen John Hartnett.
246 3 $aDemocratic dissent and the cultural fictions of antebellum America
260 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$cc2002.
300 $ax, 230 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-220) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Acknowledgments vii -- Introduction: Cultural Fictions and the Rhetorical -- Work of Humble Irony I -- I. The Dialectics of Assent and Dissent, Yankee Ingenuity, -- and the Rhetorical Politics of Abolitionism I -- 2. Proslavery Cultural Fictions, White Fear, and the -- Rhetoric of Serious Evils 40 -- 3. Senator Robert Walker's Letter on Texas Annexation, -- The South in Danger, and the Rhetoric of Manifest -- Destiny 93 -- 4. Whitman's Pose, the Daguerreotype, and the Dialectics -- of Commodification, Self-Making, and Democracy I32 -- Conclusion: The Paradoxes of Democratic -- Representation 173 -- Notes 183 -- Index 221.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1845-1861.
650 0 $aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aDemocracy$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aPropaganda$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aCapitalism$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aIdentity (Psychology)$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American.
856 42 $3Book review (H-Net)$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c6p1-aa
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001004111.html