LEADER 04846nam 22007215 450 001 9910817245103321 005 20230803203822.0 010 $a1-4798-8816-8 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479888160 035 $a(CKB)3710000000203896 035 $a(EBL)1747373 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001289886 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11949762 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001289886 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11250682 035 $a(PQKB)10097563 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326425 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1747373 035 $a(OCoLC)887973191 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34297 035 $a(DE-B1597)548048 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479888160 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000203896 100 $a20200723h20142014 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Traumatic Colonel $eThe Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr /$fMichael J. Drexler, Ed White 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (236 p.) 225 0 $aAmerica and the Long 19th Century ;$v3 300 $a"Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso. 311 0 $a1-4798-4253-2 311 0 $a1-4798-7167-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tBurrology?extracts --$tIntroduction --$t1. The semiotics of the founders --$t2. Hors monde, or the fantasy structure of republicanism --$t3. Female Quixotism and the fantasy of region --$t4. Burr?s formation, 1800?1804 --$t5. Burr?s deployment, 1804?1807 --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAbout the authors 330 $aIn American political fantasy, the Founding Fathers loom large, at once historical and mythical figures. In The Traumatic Colonel, Michael J. Drexler and Ed White examine the Founders as imaginative fictions, characters in the specifically literary sense, whose significance emerged from narrative elements clustered around them. From the revolutionary era through the 1790's, the Founders took shape as a significant cultural system for thinking about politics, race, and sexuality. Yet after 1800, amid the pressures of the Louisiana Purchase and the Haitian Revolution, this system could no longer accommodate the deep anxieties about the United States as a slave nation. Drexler and White assert that the most emblematic of the political tensions of the time is the figure of Aaron Burr, whose rise and fall were detailed in the literature of his time: his electoral tie with Thomas Jefferson in 1800,the accusations of seduction, the notorious duel with Alexander Hamilton, his machinations as the schemer of a breakaway empire, and his spectacular treason trial. The authors venture a psychoanalytically-informed exploration of post-revolutionary America to suggest that the figure of ?Burr? was fundamentally a displaced fantasy for addressing the Haitian Revolution. Drexler and White expose how the historical and literary fictions of the nation?s founding served to repress the larger issue of the slave system and uncover the Burr myth as the crux of that repression. Exploring early American novels, such as the works of Charles Brockden Brown and Tabitha Gilman Tenney, as well as the pamphlets, polemics, tracts, and biographies of the early republican period, the authors speculate that this flourishing of political writing illuminates the notorious gap in U.S. literary history between 1800 and 1820. 410 0$aAmerica and the Long 19th Century 606 $aAmerican literature$y1783-1850$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aFantasy$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMythology$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1783-1865$vSources 607 $aHaiti$xHistory$yRevolution, 1791-1804$xInfluence 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aFantasy$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aMythology$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 676 $a973.46092 686 $aHIS036030$aLIT004020$aHIS031000$2bisacsh 700 $aDrexler$b Michael J.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01629130 702 $aWhite$b Ed$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817245103321 996 $aThe Traumatic Colonel$93966658 997 $aUNINA