Democracy, revolution, and monarchism in early modern american literature.
A radical revision of some of the most cherished elements of early American cultural identity. Downes argues that the whole construction of a Republican public sphere actually borrowed central features of monarchical rule. Downes discovers this theme in a wide range of American novels and a variety...
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Cambridge Univ Press,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the spell of democracy; CHAPTER 1 Monarchophobia: reading the mock executions of 1776; CHAPTER 2 Crèvecoeur's revolutionary loyalism; CHAPTER 3 Citizen subjects: the memoirs of Stephen Burroughs and Benjamin Franklin; CHAPTER 4 An epistemology of the ballot box: Brockden Brown's secrets; CHAPTER 5 Luxury, effeminacy, corruption: Irving and the gender of democracy; Afterword: the revolution's last word; Notes; Bibliography; Index.