The Traumatic Colonel : The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr /

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"In American political fantasy, the Founding Fathers loom large, at once historical and mythical figures. In The Traumatic Colonel, Michael J. Drexler and Ed White examine the Founders as imaginative fictions, characters in the specifically literary sense, whose significance emerged from narrat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Drexler, Michael J.
Other Authors: White, Ed, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Burr, Aaron, > 1756-1836.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
HISTORY > Revolutionary.
Sources.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Burrology : Extracts
  • Introduction
  • The Semiotics of the Founders
  • Hors Monde, or the Fantasy Structure of Republicanism
  • Female Quixotism and the Fantasy of Region
  • Burr's Formation, 1800-1804
  • Burr, 1804-1807
  • Conclusion.

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