The University of Iowa Department of English
Bluford Adams

book coverSelected Publications

Books

E. Pluribus Barnum: The Great Showman and the Making of U.S. Popular Culture, University of Minnesota Press, (1997). 

 

Selected Articles

Review of Benjamin Reiss The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death and Memory in Barnum’s America in Ethnic and Racial Studies. Forthcoming.

“Reading the Re-Revival: Competing Approaches in U.S. Ethnic Studies” American Literary History.15.2 (2002).

"'A Stupendous Mirror of Departed Empires': The Barnum Hippodromes and Circuses, 1874-1891." American Literary History. 8.1 (1996). 22 pages.

Entries: Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs. Larry Shumsky, editor. ABC-CLIO, 1998.

 

 

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