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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... writes , was absolutely original to the American Revolution : “ inalienable political rights of all men by virtue of birth would have appeared to all ages prior to our own as they appeared to Burke - a contradiction in terms " ( On ...
... writes , was absolutely original to the American Revolution : “ inalienable political rights of all men by virtue of birth would have appeared to all ages prior to our own as they appeared to Burke - a contradiction in terms " ( On ...
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... writes Thomas Paine , " is the sys- tem of logic upon which are founded the claims of Royalty : ' I , ' says the hereditary prince , owe my authority to my birth ; I owe my birth to God ; therefore , I owe nothing to men " " ( " An ...
... writes Thomas Paine , " is the sys- tem of logic upon which are founded the claims of Royalty : ' I , ' says the hereditary prince , owe my authority to my birth ; I owe my birth to God ; therefore , I owe nothing to men " " ( " An ...
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... write - even if it is only the minimal writing of a mark added to the right set of letters – if he is to have been there at all . In a democracy , this relationship to writing guarantees the voter's free speech . The Haitian example ...
... write - even if it is only the minimal writing of a mark added to the right set of letters – if he is to have been there at all . In a democracy , this relationship to writing guarantees the voter's free speech . The Haitian example ...
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... writes a suspiciously sanguine James , " has tended to regenerate [ the poor of Europe ] . ” “ Formerly they were not numbered in any civil lists of their country , except in those of the poor ; here they rank as citizens . By 12 ...
... writes a suspiciously sanguine James , " has tended to regenerate [ the poor of Europe ] . ” “ Formerly they were not numbered in any civil lists of their country , except in those of the poor ; here they rank as citizens . By 12 ...
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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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