Democratic Personality

Popular Voice and the Trial of American Authorship

Autor: Nancy Ruttenberg

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Väzba: Pevná

Vydavateľ: 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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Autor

Nancy Ruttenberg

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

1998

Stránok

552

EAN

9780804730969

ISBN

0804730962

Enbook ID

04716691

Vydavateľ

Stanford University Press

Hmotnosť

960

Rozmery

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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