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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Cultural Constitution of the Post-Republic: Eighteenth-Century Politics and Nineteenth-Century Literary Form
Abstract
dc:description"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.)."
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Moss, Andrew Patrick
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Trish Loughran
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3411450
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/81461