Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American LiteratureCambridge University Press, 15 aug. 2002 - 239 sidor 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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... Irving and the gender of democracy Afterword: the rev0lution's last word Notes Bibliography Index page ix X11 31 58. 84. II2 144 I82 223 237 Preface This book attempts to deconstruct the revolutionary opposition between vii Contents.
... Irving and the gender of democracy Afterword: the rev0lution's last word Notes Bibliography Index page ix X11 31 58. 84. II2 144 I82 223 237 Preface This book attempts to deconstruct the revolutionary opposition between vii Contents.
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... Irving, in “Rip Van Winkle,” gives us insight into the anxiety generated by an expanded body politic. This anxiety is recorded in specific attempts to limit the franchise in the early republic and in “Rip Van Winkle”'s aggressive ...
... Irving, in “Rip Van Winkle,” gives us insight into the anxiety generated by an expanded body politic. This anxiety is recorded in specific attempts to limit the franchise in the early republic and in “Rip Van Winkle”'s aggressive ...
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... Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper; but as the study ofa period in which political writing and political events presented Americans with their most compelling occasions for speculation and innovation, we will also pay close attention to ...
... Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper; but as the study ofa period in which political writing and political events presented Americans with their most compelling occasions for speculation and innovation, we will also pay close attention to ...
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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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