Blackening Character, Imagining Race, and Mapping Morality : Tarring and Feathering in Nineteenth Century American Literature /

This study examines the ritual of tarring and feathering within specific American cultural contexts and literary works of the nineteenth-century to show how the discourse surrounding the actual and figurative practice functioned as part of a larger process of discursive and visual racialization. The...

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Main Author:	Trninic, Marina (Author)
Other Authors:	Reynolds, Larry J. (Larry John), 1942- (Thesis advisor)
Format:	Thesis eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[College Station, Texas] : [Texas A & M University], [2013]
Subjects:	Major English. nineteenth-century American literature eighteenth-century American literature American history tarring and feathering John Trumbull James Fenimore Cooper Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne
Online Access:	Link to OAK Trust copy