The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885-1910
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)
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During 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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:110702806X
ISBN13:9781107028067
Release Date:December 2012
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:214 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"
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