| 书目名称 | Immunity‘s Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
| 编辑 | Rick Rodriguez |
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| 概述 | Critiques the assumptions of the globalization paradigm that underpins transnational American studies.Draws on a selection of early U.S. literary works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Pre |
| 丛书名称 | Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination |
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| 描述 | .Immunity’s Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature .tracks flashpoint events in U.S. history, constituting a genealogy of the effectiveness and resilience of the concept of immunity in democratic culture. Rick Rodriguez argues that following the American Revolution the former colonies found themselves subject to foreign and domestic threats imperiling their independence. Wars with North African regencies, responses to the Haitian revolution, reactions to the specter and reality of slave rebellion in the antebellum South, and plans to acquire Cuba to ease tensions between the states all constituted immunizing responses that helped define the conceptual and aesthetic protocols by which the U.S. represented itself to itself and to the world’s nations as distinct, exemplary, and vulnerable. Rodriguez examines these events as expressions of an immunitary logic that was—and still is— frequently deployed to legitimate state authority. Rodriguez identifies contradictions in literary texts’ dramatizations of these transnational events and their attending threats, revealing how democracy’s exposure to its own fragility serves as rationale for immunity’s sovere |
| 出版日期 | Book 2019 |
| 关键词 | sovereign immunity; American politics; American Revolution; Haitian revolution; North Africa; Thomas Jeff |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34013-1 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-34015-5 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-34013-1Series ISSN 2946-4072 Series E-ISSN 2946-4080 |
| issn_series | 2946-4072 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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