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The temple and the forum : the American museum and cultural authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman / Les Harrison.
Author
Harrison, Henry Leslie
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2007.
Description
xxv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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PS217.C85 H37 2007
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Subject(s)
American literature
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19th century
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History and criticism
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Museums
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Philosophy
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Museums
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Museums
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Social aspects
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United States
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Literature and society
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United States
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History
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19th century
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United States
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Intellectual life
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19th century
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864
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Criticism and interpretation
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Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Criticism and interpretation
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811-1896
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Criticism and interpretation
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Whitman, Walt 1819-1892
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Criticism and interpretation
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Summary note
"The rise of the museum as a cultural institution in 19th-century America brought with it many contested notions about what artifacts merited preservation or display and concerning the role of museums in public life and the cultural marketplace. In The Temple and the Forum, Les Harrison excavates the shared concerns and practices of 19th-century American museums and the literary productions of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-265) and index.
Contents
Forums and temples: the museum as representational site
"The emptiness of picture galleries": Hawthorne's interrogation of cultural authority in the commercial marketplace
"For unless you own the whale": Melville's cultural interregnum
"Arguing with pictures": constructing Uncle Tom's cabin on the New York stage
Walt Whitman's specimens of democracy.
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ISBN
9780817315634 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0817315632
LCCN
2006036189
OCLC
74964976
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