04846nam 22007215 450 991078677280332120230803203822.01-4798-8816-810.18574/9781479888160(CKB)3710000000203896(EBL)1747373(SSID)ssj0001289886(PQKBManifestationID)11949762(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001289886(PQKBWorkID)11250682(PQKB)10097563(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326425(MiAaPQ)EBC1747373(OCoLC)887973191(MdBmJHUP)muse34297(DE-B1597)548048(DE-B1597)9781479888160(EXLCZ)99371000000020389620200723h20142014 fg 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrThe Traumatic Colonel The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr /Michael J. Drexler, Ed WhiteNew York, NY :New York University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (236 p.)America and the Long 19th Century ;3"Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso.1-4798-4253-2 1-4798-7167-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Burrology—extracts --Introduction --1. The semiotics of the founders --2. Hors monde, or the fantasy structure of republicanism --3. Female Quixotism and the fantasy of region --4. Burr’s formation, 1800–1804 --5. Burr’s deployment, 1804–1807 --Conclusion --Notes --Index --About the authorsIn American political fantasy, the Founding Fathers loom large, at once historical and mythical figures. In The Traumatic Colonel, Michael J. Drexler and Ed White examine the Founders as imaginative fictions, characters in the specifically literary sense, whose significance emerged from narrative elements clustered around them. From the revolutionary era through the 1790's, the Founders took shape as a significant cultural system for thinking about politics, race, and sexuality. Yet after 1800, amid the pressures of the Louisiana Purchase and the Haitian Revolution, this system could no longer accommodate the deep anxieties about the United States as a slave nation. Drexler and White assert that the most emblematic of the political tensions of the time is the figure of Aaron Burr, whose rise and fall were detailed in the literature of his time: his electoral tie with Thomas Jefferson in 1800,the accusations of seduction, the notorious duel with Alexander Hamilton, his machinations as the schemer of a breakaway empire, and his spectacular treason trial. The authors venture a psychoanalytically-informed exploration of post-revolutionary America to suggest that the figure of “Burr” was fundamentally a displaced fantasy for addressing the Haitian Revolution. Drexler and White expose how the historical and literary fictions of the nation’s founding served to repress the larger issue of the slave system and uncover the Burr myth as the crux of that repression. Exploring early American novels, such as the works of Charles Brockden Brown and Tabitha Gilman Tenney, as well as the pamphlets, polemics, tracts, and biographies of the early republican period, the authors speculate that this flourishing of political writing illuminates the notorious gap in U.S. literary history between 1800 and 1820.America and the Long 19th CenturyAmerican literature1783-1850History and criticismPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryFantasyPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryMythologyPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centurySlaveryPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1783-1865SourcesHaitiHistoryRevolution, 1791-1804InfluenceAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryFantasyPolitical aspectsHistoryMythologyPolitical aspectsHistorySlaveryPolitical aspectsHistory973.46092HIS036030LIT004020HIS031000bisacshDrexler Michael J.authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1504224White Edauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910786772803321The Traumatic Colonel3733108UNINA