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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 “The thing is new”: Sovereignty and Slavery in Democracy in America 36 2 Color, Race, and the Spectacle of Opinion in Beaumont’s Marie 75 3 “The Hangman’s Accomplice”: Spectacle and Complicity in Lydia Maria Child’s New York 121 4 The Spectacle of Reform: Theater and Prison in Hawthorne’s Blithedale Romance 157 5 Theatricality, Strangeness, and Democracy in Melville’s Confidence-Man 192 Notes 223 Select Bibliography 255 Index 271 ...