Voicing America language, literary form, and the origins of the United States
How is a nation brought into being? In a detailed examination of crucial texts of eighteenth-century American literature, Christopher Looby argues that the United States was self-consciously enacted through the spoken word. Historical material informs and animates theoretical texts by Derrida, Lacan...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Chicago, Ill. u.a.
Univ. of Chicago Press
1996
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American literature / History and criticism / 1783-1850
> National characteristics, American, in literature
> American literature
> History and criticism
> English language
> Literary form
> Americanisms
> United States
> Intellectual life
> USA
> Literatur
> Nationalcharakter
> Geschichte 1783-1865
> Geistesleben
> Nationalbewusstsein
> Geschichte 1783-1850
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | How is a nation brought into being? In a detailed examination of crucial texts of eighteenth-century American literature, Christopher Looby argues that the United States was self-consciously enacted through the spoken word. Historical material informs and animates theoretical texts by Derrida, Lacan, and others as Looby unravels the texts of Benjamin Franklin, Charles Brockden Brown, and Hugh Henry Brackenridge and connects them to nation-building, political discourse, and self-creation. Correcting the strong emphasis on the importance of print culture in eighteenth-century America, Voicing America uncovers the complex process of early American writers articulating their new nation and reveals a body of literature and a political discourse thoroughly concerned with the power of vocal language. |
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| Beschreibung: | Began as a dissertation in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University"--P. vii Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 287 S. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0226492826 0-226-49282-6 |