Democratic personality: popular voice and the trial of American authorship

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Introduction Part I: 1. The devil in the damsel: spectral evidence 2. Spectacular conversion: George Whitefield and the rise of democratic personality 3. The advent of the individual: democratic personality and the spectral self Part II: 4. The voice of the people, the voice of the specter 5. The crisis of American character 6. An American aesthetic of innocence: domesticating democratic personality 7. Melville's anxiety of innocence: the handsome sailor Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.

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