Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature
Paul Downes
Paul Downes offers a radical revision of some of the most cherished elements of early American cultural identity. The founding texts and writers of the Republic, he claims, did not wholly displace what they claimed to oppose. Instead, Downes argues, the entire construction of a Republican public sphere actually borrowed and adapted central features of Monarchical rule. Downes discovers this theme not only in a wide range of American novels, but also in readings of a variety of political documents that created the philosophical culture of the American revolutionary period.
种类:
年:
2002
出版社:
Cambridge University Press
语言:
english
页:
252
ISBN 10:
0521813395
ISBN 13:
9780521813396
系列:
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
文件:
PDF, 1.15 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2002