Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: the spell of democracy
- 1 Monarchophobia: reading the mock executions of 1776
- 2 Crèvecoeur's revolutionary loyalism
- 3 Citizen subjects: the memoirs of Stephen Burroughs and Benjamin Franklin
- 4 An epistemology of the ballot box: Brockden Brown's secrets
- 5 Luxury, effeminacy, corruption: Irving and the gender of democracy
- Afterword: the revolution's last word
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: the spell of democracy
- 1 Monarchophobia: reading the mock executions of 1776
- 2 Crèvecoeur's revolutionary loyalism
- 3 Citizen subjects: the memoirs of Stephen Burroughs and Benjamin Franklin
- 4 An epistemology of the ballot box: Brockden Brown's secrets
- 5 Luxury, effeminacy, corruption: Irving and the gender of democracy
- Afterword: the revolution's last word
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002