Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States - Couverture souple

Looby, Christopher

 
9780226492834: Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0226492834 ISBN 13 : 9780226492834
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1998

Synopsis

How is a nation brought into being? In a detailed examination of crucial texts of eighteenth-century American literature, Christopher Looby argues that the United States was self-consciously enacted through the spoken word. Historical material informs and animates theoretical texts by Derrida, Lacan, and others as Looby unravels the texts of Benjamin Franklin, Charles Brockden Brown, and Hugh Henry Brackenridge and connects them to nation-building, political discourse, and self-creation. Correcting the strong emphasis on the importance of print culture in eighteenth-century America, Voicing America uncovers the complex process of early American writers articulating their new nation and reveals a body of literature and a political discourse thoroughly concerned with the power of vocal language.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

How is a nation brought into being? In a detailed examination of crucial texts of eighteenth-century American literature, Christopher Looby argues that the United States was self-consciously enacted through the spoken word. Historical material informs and animates theoretical texts by Derrida, Lacan, and others as Looby unravels the texts of Benjamin Franklin, Charles Brockden Brown, and Hugh Henry Brackenridge and connects them to nation-building, political discourse, and self-creation. Correcting the strong emphasis on the importance of print culture in eighteenth-century America, Voicing America uncovers the complex process of early American writers articulating their new nation and reveals a body of literature and a political discourse thoroughly concerned with the power of vocal language.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226492834
ISBN 13 
9780226492834
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
300
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0226492826 ISBN 13 :  9780226492827
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1996
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