| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 239 pages). |
| Series |
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture ; no. 130 |
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; no. 130.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-236) and index. |
| Contents |
Monarchophobia: reading the mock executions of 1776 -- Crèvecoeur's revolutionary loyalism -- Citizen subjects: the memoirs of Stephen Burroughs and Benjamin Franklin -- An epistemology of the ballot box: Brockden Brown's secrets -- Luxury, effeminacy, corruption: Irving and the gender of democracy -- Afterword: the revolution's last word. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
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, Crevecoeur's Letters From An American Farmer, and the works of America's first significant literary figures including Brockden Brown, Washington Irving and James Fennimore Cooper. He claims that the new democratic American state and 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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American Revolution (1775-1783) (OCoLC)fst01351668
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American literature -- History and criticism -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Literature and the revolution.
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Revolutionary literature, American -- History and criticism.
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Revolutions in literature.
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Democracy in literature.
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Monarchy in literature.
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United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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Democracy in literature. (OCoLC)fst00890120
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Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
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Monarchy in literature. (OCoLC)fst01025065
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Politics and literature. (OCoLC)fst01069960
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Revolutionary literature, American. (OCoLC)fst01096610
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Revolutions in literature. (OCoLC)fst01096773
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Literatur.
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Monarchie (Motiv)
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Demokratie (Motiv)
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Revolution (Motiv)
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United States.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1770-1830
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1700 - 1799
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Electronic books |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Online-Publikation.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Downes, Paul, 1965- Democracy, revolution, and monarchism in early American literature. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521813395 (DLC) 2002017399 (OCoLC)48803428 |
| ISBN |
0511020554 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511020551 (electronic bk.) |
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0511120435 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511120435 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511485480 (electronic bk.) |
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0511485484 (electronic bk.) |
