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

Looby, Christopher

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

Inhaltsangabe

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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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226492834
ISBN 13 
9780226492834
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
300
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