The Letters of the Republic : Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America 0674527860, 9780674527867
The subject of Michael Warner’s book is the rise of a nation. America, he shows, became a nation by developing a new kin
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English Pages 206 [113] Year 1990
Table of contents :
Preface
I - The Cultural Mediation of the Print Medium
II - The Res Publica of Letters
III - Franklin: The Representational Politics of the Man of Letters
IV - Textuality and Legitimacy in the Printed Constitution
V - Nationalism and the Problem of Republican Literature
VI - The Novel: Fantasies of Publicity
Notes
Index
Preface
I - The Cultural Mediation of the Print Medium
II - The Res Publica of Letters
III - Franklin: The Representational Politics of the Man of Letters
IV - Textuality and Legitimacy in the Printed Constitution
V - Nationalism and the Problem of Republican Literature
VI - The Novel: Fantasies of Publicity
Notes
Index
- Author / Uploaded
- Michael Warner
