Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American LiteratureCambridge University Press, 2002 M08 15 - 239 páginas Paul Downes combines literary criticism and political history in order to explore responses to the rejection of monarchism in the American revolutionary era. Downes' analysis considers the Declaration of Independence, Franklin's autobiography, Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer and the works of America's first significant literary figures including Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. He claims that the post-revolutionary American state and the new democratic citizen inherited some of the complex features of absolute monarchy, even as they were strenuously trying to assert their difference from it. In chapters that consider the revolution's mock execution of George III, the Elizabethan notion of the 'king's two bodies' and the political significance of the secret ballot, Downes points to the traces of monarchical political structures within the practices and discourses of early American democracy. This is an ambitious study of an important theme in early American culture and society. |
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... constitutional ) ; I want to draw attention to the figural excess generated by the concept of representation in the late eighteenth century ; and I want to think about the strange temporality of democratic citizenship ( how is it ...
... constitutional ) ; I want to draw attention to the figural excess generated by the concept of representation in the late eighteenth century ; and I want to think about the strange temporality of democratic citizenship ( how is it ...
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... constitutional convention; Benjamin Franklin's exemplary civic personality performs one of its most crucial interventions in the name of a secret sacrifice; and the subject of revo- lutionary freedom finds itself enclosed by the walls ...
... constitutional convention; Benjamin Franklin's exemplary civic personality performs one of its most crucial interventions in the name of a secret sacrifice; and the subject of revo- lutionary freedom finds itself enclosed by the walls ...
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... Constitution - the subject of that text which the Bill of Rights amends . Who is that subject if he or she is not ... ( constitutional ) convention . " If the subject of the Bill of Rights finds its figural space outside , or before , the ...
... Constitution - the subject of that text which the Bill of Rights amends . Who is that subject if he or she is not ... ( constitutional ) convention . " If the subject of the Bill of Rights finds its figural space outside , or before , the ...
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... Constitution might be expected to show up inside the law , framed by its articles and sections , defined by its delineation of acceptable representatives and eligible voters . ( In chapters three and four I will suggest at more length ...
... Constitution might be expected to show up inside the law , framed by its articles and sections , defined by its delineation of acceptable representatives and eligible voters . ( In chapters three and four I will suggest at more length ...
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Contenido
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reading the mock executions of 1776 | 31 |
CHAPTER 2 Crèvecoeurs revolutionary loyalism | 58 |
the memoirs of Stephen Burroughs and Benjamin Franklin | 84 |
Brockden Browns secrets | 112 |
Irving and the gender of democracy | 144 |
the revolutions last word | 165 |
Notes | 182 |
Bibliography | 223 |
Index | 237 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature Paul Downes Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature Paul Downes Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
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