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Shelly Jarenski.
- Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Disruptive aesthetics: Melville's daguerrean experiments -- Panoramic aesthetics and African American challenges -- Imagined tourism: Hawthorne's virtual Rome -- Spectacular display: the politics of exhibition aesthetics -- Coda.
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Aesthetics, American. Aesthetics in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature. American literature--History and criticism.--19th century