Autor: Jennifer Greiman

‚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 acco …

A collection of engaging essays that seeks to uniquely reperiodize American literature.It is all but inevitable for literary history to be divided into periods. "Early American, " "ant …

Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of identity and race appear through imaging technologie …

"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 …

For Herman Melville, the instability of democracy held tremendous creative potential. Examining the centrality of political thought to Melville’s oeuvre, Jennifer Greiman argues that Melville’s dense …