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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... sovereign autonomy that might be reproduced on an individ- ual level ; but he also exemplified a self - dissolution and mystification that would be associated with everything the revolution had come to replace . This book suggests that ...
... sovereign autonomy that might be reproduced on an individ- ual level ; but he also exemplified a self - dissolution and mystification that would be associated with everything the revolution had come to replace . This book suggests that ...
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... sovereign disruption of presence that is at work in every extension of democratization . The concealed citizen is also the centre of attention in chapter four's discussion of the secret ballot and of Charles Brockden Brown's fictional ...
... sovereign disruption of presence that is at work in every extension of democratization . The concealed citizen is also the centre of attention in chapter four's discussion of the secret ballot and of Charles Brockden Brown's fictional ...
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... itself in debt to a figure of radical independence whose sovereign obscu- rity can only be claimed for democracy via the perpetual reassurance of its dissolution. Acknowledgments I would like to take this opportunity to thank Preface xi.
... itself in debt to a figure of radical independence whose sovereign obscu- rity can only be claimed for democracy via the perpetual reassurance of its dissolution. Acknowledgments I would like to take this opportunity to thank Preface xi.
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... sovereign democratic will , would seem to be at the center of the law here : the law - via its representatives - surrounds him . And yet the officials do not want to see him ; they do not want to hear from him or speak to him . They are ...
... sovereign democratic will , would seem to be at the center of the law here : the law - via its representatives - surrounds him . And yet the officials do not want to see him ; they do not want to hear from him or speak to him . They are ...
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... sovereign source of democratic legitimacy ; nature's God and God's nature ; individ- ual inalienable rights etc. ) must be examined with attention to the perfor- mative disruption of their cognitive force . Literary theory refuses to ...
... sovereign source of democratic legitimacy ; nature's God and God's nature ; individ- ual inalienable rights etc. ) must be examined with attention to the perfor- mative disruption of their cognitive force . Literary theory refuses 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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