Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing

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and slavery, 104, 107, 111, 239n51; and sovereignty, 52, 96 anti-abolitionism, 111–13, 121–23, 132, 240n57, 240n67 antislavery. See abolition Arendt, Hannah, 4, 216, 221–22 Astor Place riots, 21–25, 29, 132, 215, 226n59, 227n70 Auburn Prison, 231n30. See also New York System ban, 7, 54–55, 68, 154–56, 197 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 239n49 Balibar, Étienne, 232n53 Barnum, Phineas T., and the American Museum, 27, 32, 133–34, 144, 147–51, 157; and humbug, 134, 147–48, 204–5; and race, 147–48; and spectacle, 29–30, 134–35, 144, 151–52, 155, 163, 226n51, 224n47 Barrish, Jonas, 211–12, 251n20 Beaumont, Gustave de, and the 1834 New York Race riots, 111, 113–15, 117; and American literature, 30, 233n1; On the Penitentiary System in the United States and its Application in France, 28, 31, 50, 86–93, 237n28, 237n36; and prisons, 18, 28, 88–93; and majority tyranny, 16, 31, 88; and public opinion, 87, 92–93; and race, 74–76, 80–82, 88, 234n3; and slavery, 16–17, 31; and spectacle, 19, 74, 77, 92–93; and Tocqueville, Alexis de, 19, 30–31, 50, 74–77, 81–82, 86–88, 97–98, abandonment, 53–55, 68, 81, 87–89, 200. See also Agamben, Giorgio; ban abolition, activists, 112, 121–22; discourse of, 16–17, 130, 149, 158, 233n1; national movement of, 126–28; and public opinion, 122–26, 130–31. See also slavery absorption, as aesthetic mode, 178–82, 186, 211–15, 248n37, 249n39, 252n27; as stance of spectator, 140, 175, 182, 189–91, 212–13. See also Fried, Michael Abu Ghraib, 159 affect, in public sphere, 4–5, 47–48, 65, 73–74, 146–47. See also intimacy; sympathy Agamben, Giorgio, and the “aporia” of democracy, 10–11, 28, 72, 137; and ban, 54, 154–55; and “bare life,” 54–55; and sovereignty, 8, 10–11, 224n18; and the “state of exception,” 13–14, 16, 225n38, 228n81 Algeria, 62–63, 224n27, 232n49, 232n51 amalgamation. See interracial marriage American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS), 114, 123–24, 127–30, 242n12 American exceptionalism, 38–39, 155, 228n7, 234n3 American Museum, 27, 32, 133–34, 137, 144, 147–51, 157. See also Barnum, Phineas T. American Revolution, as anti-patriarchal, 103–4, 238n46; as compared to French Revolution, 97–98; as oratorical, 103–4, 238n46; as unfinished, 31, 96–97, 104; Index 272 / index Castronovo, Russ, 48, 169, 246n4, 247n27, 249n44 Cavell, Stanley, 212–13, 252n27 Child, Lydia Maria, and abolition, 17, 121–25, 130; Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans, 16–17, 124, 126–32, 235n12, 242n15; and interracial marriage, 128–30, 235n12, 242n17; Letters from New-York, Second Series, 125, 242n9; National Anti-Slavery Standard, as editor and contributor, 32, 121, 124–25; and popular sovereignty, 132; and public belonging, 27, 32; and public opinion, 17, 126–27, 129–32; and slavery, 18, 128, 130–31. See also Letters from New-York Civil War, 14, 224n31 Croton Aqueduct, 133–35, 137, 145 crowd, as audience, 78, 108–10, 148; constitution and dissolution of, 7, 195–201; as metonymy, 3, 5, 7, 24–25, 227n72, 241n4; in Poe, 140–42, 144; and public, 5, 7, 24–25, 85, 124, 132, 227n72; and punishment, 90–92; as revolutionary, 122; and rioting, 22–25, 36–37, 112–13, 117–20, 240n57; as river, 199, 220, 250n8; as sovereign, 113, 201–5; and totalitarianism, 21, 226n57 complicity, 11, 16–19, 26–27, 32, 127–28, 151–56, 159–60, 226n44 Compromise of 1850, 16 Confidence-Man, The (Melville), Black Guinea in, 194, 201–6, 209–10, 214–15; character as inconsistent in, 193–95, 207–10, 216; crowd in, 196–203, 205; democracy in, 193–96, 200–203, 210, 220–22; metafictional chapters of, 215–20; figure of the stranger in, 35, 68–69, 194–201, 220–22; mute man in, 194–99, 201, 210; public in, 204; race in, 201–4; strangeness in, 195, 200–201, 216–22; sovereignty in, 195, 202–3, 214; “truly warning spectacle of a man hanged by his friends,” 27, 195; theatricality in, 33–35, 195, 205–20; Thomas Frye in, 205–11 Dayan, Joan (Colin), 29, 48, 91–92, 166, 226n50, 228n81 Davis, David Brion, 110 DeBord, Guy, 11, 19–23, 29, 72, 125, 150, 226n56 Delany, Martin, 14, 16, 225n34 233n2. See also Marie; or, Slavery in the United States belonging, 6–7, 15–16, 19, 21, 34–35, 125, 132, 143–44, 156; as political inclusion, 3...