Founding fictions
By: Jennifer R. Mercieca.
Series: Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780817316907; 9780817383558
Subjects: Citizenship -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Citizenship -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Political culture -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Political stability -- United States -- History; Political participation -- United States -- History; Democracy -- United States -- History; United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775; United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Republicanism was an indefinite term" : political fictions as critical tools for citizenship; title: "The Revolution was in the minds of the people" : citizens as patriot heroes, 1764-1776; title: "The American Constitution is that little article of HOPE, left at the bottom of Pandora's box of evils" : citizens as complicit victims, 1783-1789; title: "Who would not have been willing to have died such a death?" : citizens as reified patriot heroes, July 4, 1826; title: "I will not look up to the weather-cock of popularity, to see which way the gale is blowing" : citizens as ironic partisans, 1816-1845.