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American Enchantment - Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World (Hardcover)
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American Enchantment - Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World (Hardcover)
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The demise of the monarchy and the bodily absence of a King caused
a representational crisis in the early republic, forcing the
American people to reconstruct the social symbolic order in a new
and unfamiliar way. Social historians have routinely understood the
Revolution and the early republic as projects dedicated to and
productive of reason, with "the people" as an orderly and sensible
collective at odds with the volatile and unthinking crowd. American
Enchantment rejects this traditionally held vision of a rational
public sphere, arguing that early Americans dealt with the
post-monarchical crisis by engaging in "civil mysticism," not
systematic discussion and debate. By evaluating a wide range of
social and political rituals and literary and cultural discourses,
Sizemore shows how "enchantment" becomes a vital mode of enacting
the people after the demise of traditional monarchical forms. In
works by Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Catharine
Sedgwick, and Nathaniel Hawthorne-as well as in Delaware oral
histories, accounts of George Washington's inauguration, and
Methodist conversion narratives-enchantment is an experience
uniquely capable of producing new forms of popular power and social
affiliation. Recognizing the role of enchantment in constituting
the people overturns some of the most common-sense assumptions in
the post-revolutionary world: above all, that the people are not
simply a flesh-and-blood substance, but also a mystical force.
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