Jennifer Greiman: 1 book
Democracy's Spectacle
Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
"What is the hangman but a servant of law? And what is that law but an expression of public opinion? And if public opinion be brutal and thou a component part thereof, art thou not the hangman's accomplice?" Writing in 1842, Lydia Maria Child articulates a crisis in the relationship of democracy...
