Benjamin Reiss is associate professor of English at Emory University and the author of The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America.
2 Ebooks by Reiss Benjamin Reiss
Benjamin Reiss: Theaters of Madness
In the mid-1800s, a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. Housed in magnificent struc …
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Benjamin Reiss: Showman and the Slave
In this compelling story about one of the nineteenth century’s most famous Americans, Benjamin Reiss uses P. T. Barnum’s Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum No …
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