Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)

by Paul Downes

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Paul Downes combines literary criticism and political history in order to explore responses to the rejection of monarchism in the American revolutionary era. Downes' analysis considers the Declaration of Independence, Franklin's autobiography, Cr?vecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer and the works of America's first significant literary figures including Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper. He claims that the post-revolutionary...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521100291

ISBN13:9780521100298

Release Date:January 2009

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.84 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

American Literature Classics Criticism & Theory Democracy History & Criticism Ideologies & Doctrines Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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