Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature /
This book argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and race by tracing how surveillance migrates from the literature of slavery to crime, gothic, and detective fiction, not only through the traditional concept of surveillance (top-down), but also the tactics...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
[2022]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in American literary history.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and race by tracing how surveillance migrates from the literature of slavery to crime, gothic, and detective fiction, not only through the traditional concept of surveillance (top-down), but also the tactics of sousveillance (watching from below). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0192669028 9780192669018 019266901X 9780191946554 0191946559 9780192669025 |