LEADER 04280nam 22007932 450 001 9910456254903321 005 20151005020620.0 010 $a1-107-13325-4 010 $a0-521-10029-1 010 $a0-511-30508-7 010 $a0-511-14798-8 010 $a0-511-12043-5 010 $a0-511-04548-4 010 $a1-280-15963-4 010 $a0-511-48548-4 035 $a(CKB)111082128285926 035 $a(EBL)202209 035 $a(OCoLC)171135042 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000136599 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11144292 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000136599 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10082233 035 $a(PQKB)11296801 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511485480 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC202209 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL202209 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10021399 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL15963 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111082128285926 100 $a20090226d2002|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDemocracy, revolution, and monarchism in early American literature /$fPaul Downes$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 239 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v130 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-81339-5 311 $a0-511-02055-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index. 327 $aMonarchophobia: reading the mock executions of 1776 -- Cre?vecoeur'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. 330 $aPaul Downes combines literary criticism and political history in order to explore responses to the rejection of monarchism in the American revolutionary era. Downes' analysis considers the Declaration of Independence, Franklin's autobiography, Cre?vecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer and the works of America's first significant literary figures including Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. He claims that the post-revolutionary American state and the new democratic citizen inherited some of the complex features of absolute monarchy, even as they were strenuously trying to assert their difference from it. In chapters that consider the revolution's mock execution of George III, the Elizabethan notion of the 'king's two bodies' and the political significance of the secret ballot, Downes points to the traces of monarchical political structures within the practices and discourses of early American democracy. This is an ambitious study of an important theme in early American culture and society. 410 0$aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v130. 517 3 $aDemocracy, Revolution, & Monarchism in Early American Literature 606 $aAmerican literature$yRevolutionary period, 1775-1783$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aRevolutionary literature, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRevolutions in literature 606 $aDemocracy in literature 606 $aMonarchy in literature 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xLiterature and the revolution 607 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y18th century 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aRevolutionary literature, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRevolutions in literature. 615 0$aDemocracy in literature. 615 0$aMonarchy in literature. 676 $a810.9/358 700 $aDownes$b Paul$f1965-$01027452 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456254903321 996 $aDemocracy, revolution, and monarchism in early American literature$92442889 997 $aUNINA