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Appropriating Thomas Jefferson, 1929-1945: We Are All Jeffersonians Now

Appropriating Thomas Jefferson, 1929-1945: We Are All Jeffersonians Now

Heller, Caroline
Herget, Winfried

Hardcover

Series: Mainzer Studien Zur Amerikanistik, Book 74

Literary Criticism19th Century United States History20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 3631793677
ISBN13: 9783631793671
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Oct 21 2019
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

This study counters the view that Franklin D. Roosevelt hegemonically exalted Thomas Jefferson to iconic dominance during the Great Depression. It analyzes the diversity of those who appropriated Jefferson to find answers to the socio-economic crisis and modern industrial capitalism. This discourse analysis, spanning the ideological spectrum between 1929-1945, reveals that the creation of the Jefferson icon--in various forms of representation--generated counterhegemonic varieties of Jefferson because the appropriators grafted their values onto the historical figure which led to its transformation. These competing versions of Jefferson expressed a reformed sense of national values not only through commonalities but through the flexibility of interpretative and representational differences.

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