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Democracy, revolution, and monarchism in early American literature /
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 Far...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
no. 130. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.