04280nam 22007932 450 991080689480332120151005020620.01-107-13325-40-521-10029-10-511-30508-70-511-14798-80-511-12043-50-511-04548-41-280-15963-40-511-48548-4(CKB)111082128285926(EBL)202209(OCoLC)171135042(SSID)ssj0000136599(PQKBManifestationID)11144292(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000136599(PQKBWorkID)10082233(PQKB)11296801(UkCbUP)CR9780511485480(MiAaPQ)EBC202209(Au-PeEL)EBL202209(CaPaEBR)ebr10021399(CaONFJC)MIL15963(EXLCZ)9911108212828592620090226d2002|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDemocracy, revolution, and monarchism in early American literature /Paul Downes[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2002.1 online resource (xii, 239 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;130Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-81339-5 0-511-02055-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index.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.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, Crèvecoeur'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.Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;130.Democracy, Revolution, & Monarchism in Early American LiteratureAmerican literatureRevolutionary period, 1775-1783History and criticismPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory18th centuryRevolutionary literature, AmericanHistory and criticismRevolutions in literatureDemocracy in literatureMonarchy in literatureUnited StatesHistoryRevolution, 1775-1783Literature and the revolutionUnited StatesIntellectual life18th centuryAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryRevolutionary literature, AmericanHistory and criticism.Revolutions in literature.Democracy in literature.Monarchy in literature.810.9/358Downes Paul1965-1626956UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910806894803321Democracy, revolution, and monarchism in early American literature3963289UNINA