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The poetics of sovereignty in American literature, 1885-1910 /

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110702806X

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9781107028067

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The poetics of sovereignty in American literature, 1885-1910 /

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First Statement of Responsibility

Andrew Hebard

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x, 204 pages ;

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24 cm

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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;

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165

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Introduction : 'An empire of letters' -- 1. 'Like a disembodied shade' : popular romances and the American imperial state -- 2. Styling territory : Mark Twain and the 'Stupendous Joke' of imperial sovereignty -- 3. 'Twisted from the ordinary' : naturalism, sovereignty, and the conventions of Chinese exclusion -- 4. Acts of lawless discretion : westerns and the Plenary Administration of Native Americas -- 5. Romance and riot : Charles Chesnutt and the conventions of extralegal violence in the Jim Crow South

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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 jurisprudence and literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Hebard explores how literary trends such as romance and realism helped conventionalize, and thereby sanction, the federal government's use of sovereignty in a range of foreign and domestic policy matters, including the regulation of overseas colonies, immigration, Native American lands, and extra-legal violence in the American South. Weaving historiography with close readings of Mark Twain, the western, and other hallmarks of Progressive Era literature, Hebard's study offers a new cultural context for understanding the legal history of race relations in the United States

American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism

American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism

Law and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century

Law and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century

Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 19th century

Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 20th century

Sovereignty in literature

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Hebard, Andrew

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20130508000000.0

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