Oxford Studies in American Literary History Ser.: American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon by Elizabeth Duquette (2023, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100192899880
ISBN-139780192899880
eBay Product ID (ePID)20059013471
Product Key Features
Number of Pages400 Pages
Publication NameAmerican Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSocial History, General, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), American / General
Publication Year2023
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History
AuthorElizabeth Duquette
SeriesOxford Studies in American Literary History Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight27.7 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2023-930663
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Elizabeth Duquette has written an ambitious, monumental book that proposes a fundamental reframing of the nineteenth century as the long age of Napoleon. Dislodging "democracy" as the nation's mythic political basis and putting "tyranny" in its place, Duquette amasses a substantial archive of America's obsession with Napoleon Bonaparte to develop a thoroughly convincing account of the multiple tyrannies that stand at the foundation of US political culture-from the actual oppression of slavery to those purported incursions on the liberty of aggrieved elites that form the "tyrannical style" of nineteenth-century political discourse." -- Jennifer Greiman, Wake Forest University
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal973.4
Table Of ContentAcknowledgmentsDispatchesIntroduction: Seeing Tyranny1. Tyranny in America, or David Walker2. The Tyrannical Style of American Politics3. Raking Imperial Muck4. The Bedazzler5. Napoleonic Codes6. Séjour's Spectacles7. Young Men From the ProvincesCoda: Napoleon Complex, or Mad About NapoleonBibliographyNotesIndex
SynopsisWhat if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their polity and society. While some informed their thinking with reference to classical texts, which comprehensively consider tyranny's dangers, most drew on a more contemporary source--Napoleon Bonaparte, the century's most famous man and its most notorious tyrant. Because Napoleon defined tyranny around the nineteenth-century Atlantic world--its features and emergence, its relationship to democratic institutions, its effects on persons and peoples--he provides a way for nineteenth-century Americans to explore the parameters of tyranny and their complicity in its cruelties. Napoleon helps us see the decidedly plural forms of tyranny in the US, bringing their fictions into focus. At the same time, however, there are distinctly American modes of tyranny. From the tyrannical style of the American imagination to the usurping potential of American individualism, Elizabeth Duquette shows that tyranny is as American as democracy., What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? This book traces some of ways that nineteenth-century Americans used the figure of Napoleon to understand the perameters of tyranny and the perversions it introduced into both their polity and society.
LC Classification NumberE301
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