Founding Fictions 1st Edition by Jennifer R Mercieca ISBN 0817383557 9780817383558

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ISBN 10: 0817383557

ISBN 13: 9780817383558 

Author: Jennifer R. Merciec

An extended analysis of how Americans imagined themselves as citizens between 1764 and 1845
 
Founding Fictions develops the concept of a “political fiction,” or a narrative that people tell about their own political theories, and analyzes how republican and democratic fictions positioned American citizens as either romantic heroes, tragic victims, or ironic partisans. By re-telling the stories that Americans have told themselves about citizenship, Mercieca highlights an important contradiction in American political theory and practice: that national stability and active citizen participation are perceived as fundamentally at odds.

Table of contents:

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. “Republicanism was an indefinite term”: Political Fictions as Critical Tools for Citizenship
2. “The Revolution was in the minds of the people”: Citizens as Romantic Heroes, 1764–1776
3. “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
4. “Who would not have been willing to have died such a death?”: Citizens as Reified Patriot Heroes, July 4, 1826
5. “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
Conclusion
Notes
Index

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