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- catalog abstract ""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 Farmer, and the works of America's first significant literary figures including Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper. He claims that the post-revolutionary American state and the new democratic citizen inherited some of the complex features of absolute monarchy, even as they were strenuously trying to assert their difference from it. In chapters that consider the revolution's mock execution of George III, the Elizabethan notion of the "king's two bodies," and the political significance of the secret ballot, Downes points to the traces of monarchical political structures within the practices and discourses of early American democracy. This is an ambitious study of an important theme in early American culture and society."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12590729.
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization 1783-1865.".
- catalog coverage "United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Literature and the revolution.".
- catalog coverage "United States Intellectual life 18th century.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""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 Farmer, and the works of America's first significant literary figures including Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper. He claims that the post-revolutionary American state and the new democratic citizen inherited some of the complex features of absolute monarchy, even as they were strenuously trying to assert their difference from it. In chapters that consider the revolution's mock execution of George III, the Elizabethan notion of the "king's two bodies," and the political significance of the secret ballot, Downes points to the traces of monarchical political structures within the practices and discourses of early American democracy. This is an ambitious study of an important theme in early American culture and society."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 239 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521813395".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization 1783-1865.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Literature and the revolution.".
- catalog spatial "United States Intellectual life 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "810.9/358 21".
- catalog subject "American literature Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Democracy in literature.".
- catalog subject "Monarchy in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS193 .D69 2002".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature United States History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Revolutionary literature, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Revolutions in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Democracy, revolution, and monarchism in early American literature / Paul Downes.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".