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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... call it by its name is , according to the American Revolution , to come out from under the spell of monarchy . In June of 1995 , The New York Times carried a brief guest editorial on the recent elections in Haiti written by J. Brian ...
... call it by its name is , according to the American Revolution , to come out from under the spell of monarchy . In June of 1995 , The New York Times carried a brief guest editorial on the recent elections in Haiti written by J. Brian ...
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... call the spell of democracy . The study that follows will repeatedly suggest that the “ fabulous ” and " chimerical " features of monarchism , as it was condemned in America from as early as 1750 ( when Jonathan Mayhew employed the ...
... call the spell of democracy . The study that follows will repeatedly suggest that the “ fabulous ” and " chimerical " features of monarchism , as it was condemned in America from as early as 1750 ( when Jonathan Mayhew employed the ...
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... call , in chapter one , monarcho- phobia . In the pages of this introduction and in the chapters that follow , I will pursue some of the ways in which the political order and the po- litical subject produced by the American Revolution ...
... call , in chapter one , monarcho- phobia . In the pages of this introduction and in the chapters that follow , I will pursue some of the ways in which the political order and the po- litical subject produced by the American Revolution ...
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... call the founding . Those founding categories that would seem to give stability and certainty to the revolu- tionary effort ( the monarch as absolute enemy ; the " people " as sovereign source of democratic legitimacy ; nature's God and ...
... call the founding . Those founding categories that would seem to give stability and certainty to the revolu- tionary effort ( the monarch as absolute enemy ; the " people " as sovereign source of democratic legitimacy ; nature's God and ...
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... calls to mind Paine's description of monarchism's tendency to " exclude " the king from the " means of information " needed to make the decision that he is nevertheless " required " to make . The arbitrariness of monarchic rule that ...
... calls to mind Paine's description of monarchism's tendency to " exclude " the king from the " means of information " needed to make the decision that he is nevertheless " required " to make . The arbitrariness of monarchic rule that ...
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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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