Willing Obedience - Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898 (Hardcover, New)

This book highlights obedience as an American cultural motif by examining the ways in which citizens understand and dramatize the struggle between autonomy and allegiance. Willing Obedience tells the story of Americans who worked out the simultaneous demands of liberty and obedience in fiction, military memoir, and political writing from the Revolution through the nineteenth century. In contrast to the European model of a subject's blind obedience to a monarch, Americans imagined an allegiance that preserved autonomy even as they consented to the constraints of a new republic. In particular, the book considers the case of the soldier, whose surprisingly complex relationship to authority is in fact representative of the situation of all citizens in a republic.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2003
First published:	November 2003
Authors:	Elizabeth D. Samet
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	288
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-4725-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Promotions
LSN:	0-8047-4725-3
Barcode:	9780804747257

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