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The Traumatic Colonel The Founding Fathers, Slavery, and the Phantasmatic Aaron Burr

Name: The Traumatic Colonel
Author: Ed White

Auteur: Michael J. Drexler

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Michael J. Drexler Ed White

Engels
Paperback
9781479842537
11 juli 2014
207 pagina's

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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 US literary history between 1800 and 1820.

In
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 1790s, 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.

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Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 11 juli 2014
Aantal pagina's: 207
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Hoofdauteur: Michael J. Drexler
Tweede Auteur: Ed White
Hoofduitgeverij: New York Univ Pr

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 152 mm
Product hoogte: 25 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 152 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 19 mm
Verpakking lengte: 222 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 386 g

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Categorieën: Geschiedenis

Periodes

Nieuwe tijd (1500-1800)

Moderne tijd (1800-1945)

Regio's & Landen

Noord-, Midden-, & Zuid-Amerika

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Periode: 19e eeuw, 18e eeuw
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Taal: Engels
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar

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