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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... freedom . The man is all alone , in an outside — inside that defies simple description . This enigmatic and necessary space can only be located within or under what we could call the spell of democracy . The study that follows will ...
... freedom . The man is all alone , in an outside — inside that defies simple description . This enigmatic and necessary space can only be located within or under what we could call the spell of democracy . The study that follows will ...
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... freedom finds itself enclosed by the walls of the voting booth. The subject of the American founding, I repeatedly show, inherits the monarch's political authority by simultaneously inheriting the monarch's arbitrariness, extravagance ...
... freedom finds itself enclosed by the walls of the voting booth. The subject of the American founding, I repeatedly show, inherits the monarch's political authority by simultaneously inheriting the monarch's arbitrariness, extravagance ...
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... freedom to the encroachments of any form of political power ; it is , as Thomas Jefferson put it , “ what the people are entitled to against every government on earth , general or particular , and what no just gov- ernment should refuse ...
... freedom to the encroachments of any form of political power ; it is , as Thomas Jefferson put it , “ what the people are entitled to against every government on earth , general or particular , and what no just gov- ernment should refuse ...
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... freedom ) and the subject isolated and secreted within the frame of the ballot box or the voting booth . 18 One could even say that the history of political antagonism within democracy can be rewritten as an ongoing confrontation ...
... freedom ) and the subject isolated and secreted within the frame of the ballot box or the voting booth . 18 One could even say that the history of political antagonism within democracy can be rewritten as an ongoing confrontation ...
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... freedom of the subject of inalienable human rights ( the rights of the born , even , for some , the unborn ) . Democracy , founded on the fantasy of a singular will , the fantasy of a coincidence of the author and product of law , of a ...
... freedom of the subject of inalienable human rights ( the rights of the born , even , for some , the unborn ) . Democracy , founded on the fantasy of a singular will , the fantasy of a coincidence of the author and product of law , of a ...
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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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