Aesthetic materialism electricity and American romanticism / by Gilmore, Paul, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the word "aesthetic" -- Idealist aesthetics and the republican telegraph -- Aesthetic electricity -- Frederick Douglass's electric words : aesthetic politics and the limits of identification -- Mad filaments : Walt Whitman's aesthetic body telegraphic -- Conclusion : aesthetic electricity caged.…”
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Immersive words : mass media, visuality, and American literature, 1839-1893 / by Jarenski, Shelly

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Writing revolution aesthetics and politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau / by Bellis, Peter J.

Subjects: “…Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 Aesthetics.…”
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Liberty of the imagination aesthetic theory, literary form, and politics in the early United States / by Cahill, Edward (Edward Charles)

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Slavery and sentiment the politics of feeling in Black Atlantic antislavery writing, 1770-1850 / by Levecq, Christine

Table of Contents: “…Interiority, aesthetics, and antislavery sentiment -- Trade, sailors, national agency, and world citizenship -- Brotherhood, radicalism, and antislavery -- Blood, bodies, and the antebellum slave narrative -- The case of Frederick Douglass -- Epilogue : transnationalism and Black studies.…”
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Rewriting white race, class, and cultural capital in nineteenth-century America / by Vogel, Todd, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Speaking to the whiteness of the brain -- William Apess's theater and a "Native" American history -- Sharpening the pen : racial and aesthetic transformation -- Anna Julia Cooper and the Black orator -- Edith Eaton plays the Chinese water lily.…”
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Literary Executions Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925 / by Barton, John Cyril

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: literary executions -- Anti-gallows activism in antebellum American law & literature -- Simms, Child, & the aesthetics of crime and punishment -- Literary executions in popular antebellum fiction -- Hawthorne & the evidentiary value of literature -- Melville, Mackenzie & the Somers affair -- An American travesty: capital punishment & the criminal justice system in Dreiser's An American tragedy -- Epilogue: the death penalty in literature.…”
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Transatlantic Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe and European culture /

Table of Contents: “…Todd -- Stowe and the Byronic heroine / Caroline Franklin -- Uncle Tom's cabin and the Irish national tale / Clíona Ó Gallchoir -- Nature, magic, and history in Stowe and Scott / Monika Elbert -- The first years of Uncle Tom's cabin in Russia / John MacKay -- Stowe, Gaskell, and the woman reformer / Whitney Womack Smith -- Stowe, Eliot, and the reform aesthetic / Clare Cotugno -- Sunny memories and serious proposals / Donals Ross -- The construction of self in Sunny memories / Shirley Foster -- Art and the body in Agnes of Sorrento / Gail K. …”
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Oriental Shadows : The Presence of the East in Early American Literature / by Egan, Jim, 1961-

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The master and the dean the literary criticism of Henry James and William Dean Howells / by Davidson, Rob, 1967-

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