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

Looby, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0226492826 / ISBN 13: 9780226492827

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1996

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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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Christopher Looby is associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Voicing America : Language, Literary Form, ...
Verlag: University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good