Rachel Stephens
Author
Language
English
Description
Selling Andrew Jackson is the first book-length study of the American portrait painter Ralph E. W. Earl, who worked as Andrew Jackson's personal artist from 1817 until Earl's death in 1838. During this period Jackson held Earl in close council, even providing him residence at the Hermitage, Jackson's home in Tennessee, and at the White House during his presidency. In this well-researched and comprehensive volume, Rachel Stephens examines Earl's role...
Author
Publisher
The University of Arkansas Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the decades leading up to the Civil War, abolitionists crafted a variety of visual messages about the plight of enslaved people, portraying the violence, familial separation, and dehumanization that they faced. In response, proslavery southerners attempted to counter these messages either through idealization or outright erasure of enslaved life. In Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture, Rachel Stephens addresses...
Series
Criterion collection volume 507
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
A friendly schoolteacher turns violent when he becomes addicted to an experimental painkiller he is prescribed for a painful health problem.
