Loughran The Republic in Print

Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770-1870
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-51123-0
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 568 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 203 mm

In The Republic in Print, Trish Loughran challenges a dominant narrative about nationalism: the idea that print culture produces nations. Focusing on the years between 1770 and 1870, Loughran develops two richly detailed and provocative arguments. First she argues that it was the lack of national infrastructure (rather than a tightly connected print network) that enabled the nation to be imagined between 1776 and 1790. She then describes how the increasingly connected book market of the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s worked to exacerbate regional differences in ways that contributed to secession and civil war. Drawing on a range of literary, historical, and archival materials, The Republic in Print is a refreshing and original cultural history of the early American nation-state.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loughran, Trish

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface: A View from the Capitol: The Unfinished Work of US Nation Building
1. U.S. Print Culture: The Factory of Fragments
Part One - The Book's Two Bodies: Print Culture and National Founding, 1776-1789
2. Disseminating Common Sense: Thomas Paine and the Scene of Revolutonary Print

Culture
3. The Republic in Print: Ratification as Material Text, 1787-1788
Part Two: The Nation in Fragments: Federal Representation and its Discontents,

1787-1789
4. Virtual Nation: State-Based Identity and Federalist Fantasy
5. Metrobuilding: The Production of Federalist Space
Part Three: The Overextended Republic: Slavery, Abolition, and National Space,

1790-1870
6. Abolitionist Nation: The Space of Organized Abolition, 1790-1840
7. Slavery on the Move: From Fugitive Slave to Virtual Citizen
Conclusion: The Due Process of Nationalism

Über Autor(innen)

Trish Loughran received her B.A. from Rutgers University and her masters and doctorate degrees from the University of Chicago. She has curated print and material artifact exhibits at the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia and the David Library of the American Revolution in Washington Crossing, PA, and has held fellowships from the Bibliographical Society of America, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Huntington Library, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently associate professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches and writes about early U.S. culture.