Liberalism, Theology, and the Performative in Antebellum American Literature

Liberalism, Theology, and the Performative in Antebellum American Literature

McDonald, Patrick

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2024

170

Mole

9781032368849

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Introduction: Liberalism, Performativity, Secularism

Chapter 1: "Sometimes a real one!": Mock Marriage, Performative Utterances, and Liberal Politics in Antebellum City Mysteries Fiction

Chapter 2: Auction Goers or Lynch Mobs?: Authority and Representation in The Quadroon and The Octoroon

Chapter 3: Republican Simpliticy on Trial: Courtrooms, Aesthetics, and the Law

Chapter 4: Contracts without Covenants?: Political Authority in Moby-Dick and The Confidence-Man

Chapter 5: Political Theology in Crisis: Orestes Brownson between Hobbes and Schmitt
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Authority;Liberalism;Performativity;Antebellum;Aesthetics;Performative Utterance;Political Theology;Courtroom Trial;Performative Institutions;Referential Illusion;Antebellum American Literature;Slave Auction;Le Noir;Antebellum Literature;Early Modern;Ahab;Mock Marriage;Republican Simplicity;Secular Liberal State;Lynch Mob;Auction Form;White Whale;Performative Conventions;City Mysteries;Semiotic Ideology;Fireman;Younger Man;Secure Obedience;Queen City;Auction Scene