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Democracy, revolution, and monarchism in early American literature
- Title
- Democracy, revolution, and monarchism in early American literature / Paul Downes.
- Author
- Downes, Paul, 1965-
- Publication
- Cambridge, U.K.; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 03-15503 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 239 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- United States > Intellectual life > 18th century
- Monarchy in literature
- Politics and literature > United States > History > 18th century
- Revolutions in literature
- United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Literature and the revolution
- Democracy in literature
- American literature > Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 > History and criticism
- Revolutionary literature, American > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 03-15503
- ISBN
- 0521813395
- LCCN
- 2002017399
- OCLC
- 48803428
- Author
- Downes, Paul, 1965-
- Title
- Democracy, revolution, and monarchism in early American literature / Paul Downes.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, U.K.; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 03-15503