Democratic Dissent and the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum AmericaIn this wide ranging interdisciplinary study, Stephen John Hartnett explores the "cultural fictions" that accompanied and undergirded public debates in antebellum America regarding abolition and capitalism, race and slavery, manifest destiny and empire, and representation and self making. Drawing on a rich array of persuasive materials including speeches and debates, novels and poems, newspaper articles and advertisements, daguerreotypes and