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Paperback Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature Book
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ISBN: 3031078470

ISBN13: 9783031078477

Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature

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This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States endured sustained conflicts over the nature and operation of sovereignty in the unsettled era from the Founding to the Civil War, the book presents two forms of governance: local and regional control, and national governance. The period's states of exception arose from these clashing imperatives, creating...

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