Democracy, revolution, and monarchism in early American literature
| Titel: | Democracy, revolution, and monarchism in early American literature / Paul Downes |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge [u.a.] : Univ. Press, 2002 |
| Umfang: | XII, 239 S. ; 24 cm |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Vorliegende Ausgabe: | Online-Ausg.: 2003. - Online-Ressource. |
| ISBN: | 9780511020551 (Sekundärausgabe) |
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- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the spell of democracy
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- Monarchophobia: reading the mock executions of 1776
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- Crÿvecoeur's revolutionary loyalism
- 3
- Citizen subjects: the memoirs of Stephen Burroughs and Benjamin Franklin
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- An epistemology of the ballot box: Brockden Brown's secrets
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- Luxury, effeminacy, corruption: Irving and the gender of democracy
- Afterword: the revolution's last word
- Notes, Bibliography
- Index
