The Cultural Constitution of the Post-Republic: Eighteenth-Century Politics and Nineteenth-Century Literary Form
"The dissertation's epilogue, ""'Fellow Citizens': Frederick Douglass and the Irony of Post-republicanism,"" revisits the tropes and literary performance of Webster's commemorative address at Bunker Hill by giving a close reading of Frederick Douglass's speech to abolitionists in Rochester, New York commemorating the Fourth of July in 1852. In the speech, Douglass positions himself within the patriotic discourse of the Revolution, but he also positions himself against the republican historiographic imagination that he claims influences the ways Americans remember the Revolution. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)."
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