1st Edition
Liberalism, Theology, and the Performative in Antebellum American Literature
Introduction: Liberalism, Performativity, Secularism
Chapter 1: "Sometimes a real one!": Mock Marriage, Performative Utterances, and Liberal Politics in Antebellum City Mysteries Fiction
Chapter 2: Auction Goers or Lynch Mobs?: Authority and Representation in The Quadroon and The Octoroon
Chapter 3: Republican Simpliticy on Trial: Courtrooms, Aesthetics, and the Law
Chapter 4: Contracts without Covenants?: Political Authority in Moby-Dick and The Confidence-Man
Chapter 5: Political Theology in Crisis: Orestes Brownson between Hobbes and Schmitt
Biography
Patrick McDonald is an Assistant Professor of American Literature and Culture at Bilkent University. He received his Ph.D. at University at Buffalo – SUNY and has been published in ESQ, Eighth Lamp, and Researches in African Literature.
