Democracy revolution and monarchism in early American literature Monarchophobia: reading the mock executions of 1776 Crèvecoeurs revolutionary loyalism Citizen subjects: the memoirs of Stephen Burroughs and Benjamin Franklin An epistemology of the ballot box: Brockden Browns secrets Luxury effeminacy corruption: Irving and the gender of democracy Afterword: the revolutions last word; American Revolution (1775 1783); Geschichte 1770 1830; 1700 1799