The Showman and the Slave

Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America

Benjamin Reiss

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction: The Dark Subject

    Death and Dying

    1. Possession

    2. The Celebrated Curiosity

    3. Private Acts, Public Memories

    4. Sacred and Profane

    5. Culture Wars

    6. Love, Automata, and India Rubber

    7. Spectacle

    Resurrection

    8. Authenticity and Commodity

    9. Exposure and Mastery

    10. Erasure

    Life

    11. A Speculative Biography

    Notes

    Index

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Benjamin Reiss is Professor of English, Emory University.