Democratic Personality

Popular Voice and the Trial of American Authorship

Szerző: Nancy Ruttenberg

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Stanford University Press

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This book proposes a new view of the democratization of America by recasting democracy as a symbolic...

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Szerző

Nancy Ruttenberg

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

1998

oldal

552

EAN

9780804730969

ISBN

0804730962

Enbook ID

04716691

Kiadó

Stanford University Press

Súly

960

Méretek

152 x 229 x 35

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This book proposes a new view of the democratization of America by recasting democracy as a symbolic theater, historically realized in an untheorized and irrational public utterance that began with the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692 and extended through the Great Awakening and the antebellum era. This discursive practice gave rise, as popular voice, to a distinctive mode of political and literary subjectivity, democratic personality, which emerged without reference to the political-philosophical currents and attendant humanistic values that anticipated the formation of a liberal democratic society. The author constructs a genealogy of democratic personality by examining the historical and, later, fictional theaters within which it emerged to redefine the relation of appearance to reality and thus challenge hierarchies of political and cultural power. Its history, as outlined in the first half of the book, traces how colonial culture forsook Puritan cosmology to embrace the complex cultural semiosis of a democratic society based on the representational potential of the individual. As a strategy for self-production that spurred an urgent inquiry into the ontological status of representation, democratic personality crucially influenced the rise of a national literature by complicating the ideological problem of establishing a democratic poetics.

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