Mason, Jeffrey D. 　著

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Preface 1. Constructing Americam Ideology Ideology and Myth TheSentimental Vision Melodrama America/America 2. Metamora (1829) and theOIndianO Question King PhilipOs War Savagism The Romantic Warrior EdwinForrest, American Metamora Indian Removal The SachemOs Audience 3. TheDrunkard (1844) and the Temperance Movement The Politics of Drinking inAntobellum America The Temperance Message The Temperance Narrative TheDrunkard The Operations of Discourse 4. Uncle TomOs Cabin (1852) and thePolitics of Race The Slave System Abolitionism and Racism The ColonizationMovement The Good Samaritan The Sentimental Argument Racialism and MissisHarriet Breakdown The Safety of the Stage 5. My Partner (1879) and theWest The West The Discourse of California My Partner The Pastoral MinesThe OChineeO Paradise Lost 6. Shenandoah (1889) and the Civil War TheMyth of the War The VeteransO Myth on Stage The Rationale of War War asRomance Shenandoah Reconstruction on Stage 7. Staging the Myth of AmericaThe Discourse and Conventions of America America, the Sentimental TheAmerican Space American History as Melodrama Notes Bibliography Index