Democratic Personality: Popular Voice And The Trial Of American Authorship

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Democratic Personality: Popular Voice and the Trial of American Authorship

Democratic Personality: Popular Voice and the Trial of American Authorship

This book proposes a new view of the democratization of America by recasting democracy as a symbolic theater, historically realized in an untheorized and irrational public utterance that began with the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692 and extended through the Great Awakening and the antebellum era. This discursive practice gave rise, as popular voice, to a distinctive mode of political and literary subjectivity,

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