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By Russ Castronovo (editor)

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9781554812394 | Broadview Pr, September 4, 2015, cover price $19.95

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9780199354900 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 2014, cover price $36.95

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9780321070593, titled "The New American Democracy" | 2 edition (Longman Pub Group, November 1, 2000), cover price $63.00 | also contains The New American Democracy

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Product Description: How do we approach the rich field of nineteenth-century American literature? How might we recalibrate the coordinates of critical vision and open up new areas of investigation? To answer such questions, this volume brings together 23 original essays written by leading scholars in American literary studies...read more
By Russ Castronovo (editor)

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9780199730438 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 12, 2012, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: How do we approach the rich field of nineteenth-century American literature?

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9780199355891 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 2, 2014), cover price $53.00 | About this edition: How do we approach the rich field of nineteenth-century American literature?

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By Russ Castronovo (editor)

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9780199764419 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 13, 2013, cover price $160.00

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Product Description: The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, “I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club.” Riis was not alone in his belief that beauty could tame urban chaos, but are aesthetic experiences always a social good? Could aesthetics also inspire violent crime, working-class unrest, and racial murder? To answer these questions, Russ Castronovo turns to those who debated claims that art could democratize culture—civic reformers, anarchists, novelists, civil rights activists, and college professors—to reveal that beauty provides unexpected occasions for radical, even revolutionary, political thinking...read more

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9780226096285 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 15, 2007, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, “I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club.

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9780226096292 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 15, 2007, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, “I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club.

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Product Description: For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States. It is viewed as a completed project rather than as a goal to be achieved. Fifteen leading scholars challenge that stasis in Materializing Democracy. They aim to reinvigorate the idea of democracy by placing it in the midst of a contentious political and cultural fray, which, the volume’s editors argue, is exactly where it belongs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Russ Castronovo (editor) and Dana D. Nelson (editor)

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9780822329107 | Duke Univ Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States.

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9780822329381 | Duke Univ Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States.

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9780822327752 | Duke Univ Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $94.95

Paperback:

9780822327721 | Duke Univ Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $25.95

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Product Description: Russ Castronovo underscores the inherent contradictions between America's founding principles of freedom and the reality of slavery in a book that probes mid-nineteenth-century representations of the founding fathers. He finds that rather than being coherent and consensual, narratives of nationhood are inconsistent, ambivalent, and ironic...read more

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9780520089013 | Univ of California Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Russ Castronovo underscores the inherent contradictions between America's founding principles of freedom and the reality of slavery in a book that probes mid-nineteenth-century representations of the founding fathers.

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