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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... quoted ) to the post - revolutionary era , persist in displaced forms in the democratic state.2 To claim as much , and to make reference to the spell of democracy , is , of course , to fly in the face of the revolution's explicit ...
... quoted ) to the post - revolutionary era , persist in displaced forms in the democratic state.2 To claim as much , and to make reference to the spell of democracy , is , of course , to fly in the face of the revolution's explicit ...
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... [ quoted in Nash , Race and Revolution , 78 ] 13 ) . This idea , Hannah Arendt writes , was absolutely original to the American Revolution : “ inalienable political rights of all men by virtue of birth would have appeared to all ages ...
... [ quoted in Nash , Race and Revolution , 78 ] 13 ) . This idea , Hannah Arendt writes , was absolutely original to the American Revolution : “ inalienable political rights of all men by virtue of birth would have appeared to all ages ...
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... [ quoted in Becker , The Declaration of Independence , 223 ] ) suggests that this “ it ” is a strategic , if not downright deceptive , substitute for the people who do not want to be too closely identified with their revolutionary break ...
... [ quoted in Becker , The Declaration of Independence , 223 ] ) suggests that this “ it ” is a strategic , if not downright deceptive , substitute for the people who do not want to be too closely identified with their revolutionary break ...
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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 |
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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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