Civic longing : the speculative origins of U.S. citizenship /

Citizenship defines the U.S. political experiment, but the modern legal category that it now names is a relatively recent invention. There was no Constitutional definition of citizenship until the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, almost a century after the Declaration of Independenc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hyde, Carrie, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2018]
Temas:
1700-1899
Citizenship > United States > History > 18th century.
Citizenship > United States > History > 19th century.
Citizenship > United States > Philosophy > History.
Citizenship in literature.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Law and literature > United States > History.
Literature and society > United States > History.
Political culture > United States > History.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Roman américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Droit et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire.
Politique et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
American fiction
Citizenship
Citizenship in literature
Citizenship > Philosophy
Law and literature
Literature and society
Political culture
Politics and literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Reading "citizenship": Introduction: citizenship before the Fourteenth Amendment
  • The retroactive invention of citizenship: a textual history
  • Part II. The higher laws of citizenship: "Citizenship in heaven": biblical exegesis and the afterlife of politics
  • Citizens of nature: oceanic revolutions and the geopolitics of personhood
  • Part III. The lettered citizen: The elsewhere of citizenship: literary autonomy and the fabrication of allegiance
  • Stateless fictions: negative instruction and the nationalization of citizenship
  • Coda: Wong Kim Ark and "the man without a country."

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