Mark Power Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 8521602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Power Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark Power |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Crisis of Household Government and the Rise of Democratic Conservatism before the American Civil War
This article explores the relationship between the idea of household government and the nature of American conservatism before the Civil War. It examines two high-profile legal cases from the 1850s. Each case involved a prominent Democratic man—Edwin Forrest and then Daniel Sickles—who exacted physical revenge on his wife’s lover. The article argues that Northern Democratic editors strategically used their coverage of the cases to elaborate their…
Free Spirits
Free Spirits: Spiritualism, Republicanism, and Radicalism in the Civil War Era." American Nineteenth Century History, 19(1), pp. 115–116
Séances in the City
This paper will demonstrate that spiritualism became a significant element of popular culture in New York City between 1865 and 1870 because it catered to the “operational aesthetic” so prevalent in urban entertainments. The historian Neil Harris invented the term “operational aesthetic” to denote the spirit of playful inquiry common to the urban culture of mid-nineteenth-century America. By the 1860s, urbanization had undermined the social trans…
Tomorrow’s Parties
Peter Coviello’s Tomorrow’s Parties begins with a letter Henry James wrote to fellow writer Annie Fields in the summer of 1914 in which the author describes his “attempt to reach back a little into
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Séances in the City
This paper will demonstrate that spiritualism became a significant element of popular culture in New York City between 1865 and 1870 because it catered to the “operational aesthetic” so prevalent in urban entertainments. The historian Neil Harris invented the term “operational aesthetic” to denote the spirit of playful inquiry common to the urban culture of mid-nineteenth-century America. By the 1860s, urbanization had undermined the social trans…
Tomorrow’s Parties
Peter Coviello’s Tomorrow’s Parties begins with a letter Henry James wrote to fellow writer Annie Fields in the summer of 1914 in which the author describes his “attempt to reach back a little into
Free Spirits
Free Spirits: Spiritualism, Republicanism, and Radicalism in the Civil War Era." American Nineteenth Century History, 19(1), pp. 115–116
The Crisis of Household Government and the Rise of Democratic Conservatism before the American Civil War
This article explores the relationship between the idea of household government and the nature of American conservatism before the Civil War. It examines two high-profile legal cases from the 1850s. Each case involved a prominent Democratic man—Edwin Forrest and then Daniel Sickles—who exacted physical revenge on his wife’s lover. The article argues that Northern Democratic editors strategically used their coverage of the cases to elaborate their…
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