Constituent moments
Subtitle: enacting the people in postrevolutionary America
By: Jason Frank.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780822346630; 9780822346753
Subjects: Political culture -- United States -- History; Political participation -- United States -- History; Federal government -- United States -- History; United States -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Revolution and reiteration : Hannah Arendt's critique of constituent power; title: Crowds and communication : representation and voice in postrevolutionary America; title: Sympathy and separation : Benjamin Rush and the contagious public; title: Spaces of insurgent citizenship : theorizing the Democratic-Republican societies; title: Hearing voices : imagination and authority in Wieland; title: Aesthetic democracy : Walt Whitman and the poetry of the people; title: Staging dissensus : Frederick Douglass and "We the people".