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Authority, Autonomy, and Representation in American Literature, 1776-1865 (Hardcover)
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Authority, Autonomy, and Representation in American Literature, 1776-1865 (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, a familiar scene
appears and reappears in American literature: a speaker stands
before a crowd of men and women, attempting to mitigate their
natural suspicions in order to form a body of federated wills. In
this important study of the relationship of literature and
politics, Mark Patterson argues that this scene restates political
issues in literary terms and embodies the essential problems of
American democracy facing both politicians and writers: What is
autonomy? How does representation work? Where does true authority
lie? Beginning with the debate over ratification of the United
States Constitution, Patterson follows out the complex literary
consequences of these questions. A work of literary history and
criticism, this study also offers valuable insights into matters of
political and literary theory. In separate chapters on Benjamin
Frankin, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and Charles Brockden Brown in the
post-Revolutionary period and on Fenimore Cooper, Emerson, and
Melville in the antebellum period, Patterson provides a series of
brilliant readings of major texts in order to describe how American
writers have conflated political and literary concerns as a means
to their own social authority. Originally published in 1988. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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