Title American Enchantment : Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages) Contents Half Title -- American Enchantment -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introductionâ#x80;#x94;â#x80;#x8B;To Hover Like God: Enchantment and Rituals of the People, 1787â#x80;#x93;â#x80;#x8B;1837 -- I. After the Kingâ#x80;#x99;s Body -- II. Enchantment 2.0: Ritual Mood -- III. Reading for Enchantment -- 1. American Civil Mysticism -- I. Pagan Origins -- II. Becoming One -- III. Maypole Metrics -- IV. The Time and Mood of Merry Mountâ#x80;#x99;s Peculiar People -- V. The People: Representational Crisis and Process Ontology -- VI. C17  C19 Vortices VII. From People to â#x80;#x9C;Profuse .â#x80;#x89;.â#x80;#x89;. Miscellanyâ#x80;#x9D; 2. George Washington vs. The Phantom: Rival Sovereigns and Long Eighteenth-â#x80;#x8B;Century Insurrection -- I. â#x80;#x9C;They Make the Sovereign a Being of Fantasyâ#x80;#x9D; -- II. The Cult of Washington -- III. The Eternal Time of the People -- IV. Distributive Agency, Part 1: Intercorporeality -- V. Distributive Agency, Part 2 (a.k.a., The Fear of Large Republics) -- VI. â#x80;#x9C;Phantom of a Deluded Imaginationâ#x80;#x9D; -- VII. When Are the People? Modern Chivalryâ#x80;#x99;s Frozen Moments 3. Vox Populi, Vox Dei: Enchanted Subjectivity in Wieland and the Post-â#x80;#x8B;Revolutionary WorldI. From Deception to Transformation: Political Subjects of Enchantment -- II. Prophetic Voice and Enchanted Subjectivity -- III. The New Prophet Is a Ventriloquist: Carwinâ#x80;#x99;s Echo -- IV. Political Theology, 1798 -- V. Vital Force Fields -- 4. â#x80;#x9C;Changing by Enchantmentâ#x80;#x9D;: Washington Irvingâ#x80;#x99;s Sketch Book Hermeneutics -- I. How to Write Colonial History -- II. Writing for the Barbarians: Literature, Culture, and Colonialist Comparisons in the Early Republic III. The Rites and Times of the Grand TourIV. Constellated Comparisons and the Temporality of Enchantment -- V. â#x80;#x9C;Rip Van Winkleâ#x80;#x9D; and the Historiography of Enchantment -- VI. A Miscellaneous People -- 5. Magical Vanishing Point: Missing People in the Revolutionary Romance -- I. Present Gap -- II. When We Were Contemporary: The Historical Present and the Historical Romance -- III. â#x80;#x9C;Peter Rugg, the Missing Manâ#x80;#x9D; and the Missing Men of the Revolution -- IV. The Vortex(t) of History -- V. Love and Longing in The Linwoods VI. â#x80;#x9C;Placing Men in New Relationsâ#x80;#x9D;Conclusionâ#x80;#x94;â#x80;#x8B;Future Passing: Anticipatory-â#x80;#x8B;Reading the Historical Romance -- Notes Summary American Enchantment presents a new understanding of the social order after the American Revolution, one that enacts the concept of ""enchantment"" as a unique way of describing and coalescing popular power and social affiliation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism National characteristics, American, in literature. American literature Intellectual life National characteristics, American, in literature SUBJECT United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140365 Subject United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780190627546 0190627549 9780190627553 0190627557

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