| Preface | p. 1 |
| The Transparent Eyeball and Other American Spectacles | p. 3 |
| The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | p. 21 |
| Reenactments: "Ghost Town" and the American Search for a Sustaining Mythology | p. 38 |
| Domestic Theater: Parlor Entertainments as Spectacle, 1840-1880 | p. 48 |
| The Emergence of an American Mentality: The Cultural Work of Antebellum Stage Entertainments | p. 63 |
| The Cultural Significance of Opera in Nineteenth-Century America | p. 82 |
| The Americanization of the World and the Spectacle of the American Exhibits at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition | p. 93 |
| Americanization and Cultural Imperialism: American Mass Culture and the European Sense of History | p. 101 |
| New England Forefathers' Day Celebrations Between the American Revolution and the Civil War | p. 111 |
| Funeral Pageantry and National Unity: The Death and Burial of John Quincy Adams | p. 144 |
| Creating a National Heritage, Denying a National Crisis: The Atlantic Cable Celebrations and Atlantic Cable Poetry | p. 152 |
| Advertising America, Constructing the Nation: Rituals of the Homefront During the Great War | p. 161 |
| The Self-Representation of Power: The 'Light Golden Jubilee' in Honor of Thomas A. Edison at the Edge of the Great Depression | p. 175 |
| Union Fighting as Performance: The Case of Mary Jones | p. 193 |
| Mocking Americanization: The Processional as Mode of Satirical Critique | p. 201 |
| "Aleph, Beth, Kaddish": Language, Ceremony, and Jewish-American Identity | p. 221 |
| Rituals of Race: Gender Representations in African-American Pageantry and the Exotic Motive | p. 230 |
| Jazz Funerals and the Second Line: African-American Celebration and Public Space in New Orleans | p. 238 |
| Stripping the Emperor: The Africanist Presence in American Concert Dance | p. 273 |
| Spectacular Anti-Spectacle: Ecstasy and Nationality in Whitman and his Heirs | p. 289 |
| Frost as Virile Poet: The Queer Politics of Heterosexuality | p. 313 |
| Technologies of Self in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath | p. 326 |
| Marsden Hartley's North Atlantic Folk: Constructing the Northern Race and the New American | p. 333 |
| Women on the Verge of a Semiotic Breakdown: The Work of Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, and Barbara Kruger | p. 348 |
| Dressing for Sacrifice: The Spectacle of the Child/Woman from Little Eva to JonBenet Ramsey | p. 363 |
| "Celebrating Aids": Quilts, Confessions, and Questions of National Identity | p. 381 |
| Edward Abbey's Personal Parks in Desert Solitaire | p. 394 |
| The American Desert as a Space of Contested Identities | p. 408 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 422 |
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