Kendall McClellan Virtuous Citizens: Counterpublics and Sociopolitical Agency in Transatlantic Literature 9780817320812

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Автор: Kendall McClellan
Название: Virtuous Citizens: Counterpublics and Sociopolitical Agency in Transatlantic Literature
ISBN: 9780817320812
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: Общие вопросы

Литературные спутники (справочники), книжные обзоры и руководства

Политология и политическая философия

ISBN-10: 0817320814
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 192
Вес: 0.43 кг.
Дата издания: 28.02.2021
Язык: English
Размер: 231 x 152 x 23
Ключевые слова: Literary companions, book reviews & guides,Literary studies: general,Political science & theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General,POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
Подзаголовок: Counterpublics and sociopolitical agency in transatlantic literature
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Demonstrates how contemporary manifestations of civic publics trace directly to the early days of nationhood The eighteenth-century rise of the bourgeois public sphere and the contemporaneous appearance of counterpublics deeply influenced not only how politicians and philosophers understood the relationships among citizens, disenfranchised subjects, and the state but also how members of the polity understood themselves. In Virtuous Citizens: Counterpublics and Sociopolitical Agency in Transatlantic Literature, Kendall McClellan uncovers a fundamental and still redolent transformation in conceptions of civic identity that occurred over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Literature of this period exposes an emotional investment in questions of civic selfhood born out of concern for national stability and power, which were considered products of both economic strength and the nations moral fiber. McClellan shows how these debates traversed the Atlantic to become a prominent component of early American literature, evident in works by James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Sarah Josepha Hale, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others. Underlying popular opinion about who could participate in the political public, McClellan argues, was an impassioned rhetorical wrestling match over the right and wrong ways to demonstrate civic virtue. Relying on long-established tropes of republican virtue that lauded self-sacrifice and disregard for personal safety, abolitionist writers represented loyalty to an ideals-based community as the surest safeguard of both private and public virtue. This evolution in civic virtue sanctioned acts of protest against the state, offered disenfranchised citizens a role in politics, and helped usher in the modern transnational public sphere. Virtuous Citizens shows that the modern public sphere has always constituted a vital and powerful space for those invested in addressing injustice and expanding democracy. To illuminate some of the fundamental issues underlying todays sociopolitical unrest, McClellan traces the transatlantic origins of questions still central to the representation of movements like Black Lives Matter, the Womens March, and the Alt-Right: What is the primary loyalty of a virtuous citizen? Are patriots those who defend the current government against attacks, external and internal, or those who challenge the government to fulfill sociopolitical ideals?
Дополнительное описание: Literary studies: general|Political science and theory|Literary companions, book reviews and guides