Founding fictions
By: Jennifer R. Mercieca
Series: Rhetoric, culture, and social critique; Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780817316907; 9780817383558
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 romantic 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 tragic 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.