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Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature

Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature

Downes, Paul
Gelpi, Albert
Posnock, Ross

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Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 130

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521813395
ISBN13: 9780521813396
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 15 2002
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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