Elizabeth Duquette (Gettysburg Former Graeff Professor of English

Gebundenes Buch

American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon

Beschreibung

What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? This book traces some of ways that nineteenth-century Americans used the figure of Napoleon to understand the perameters of tyranny and the perversions it introduced into both their polity and society.

Autor

Elizabeth Duquette is a Visiting Scholar at Reed College and Professor Emerita of English at Gettysburg College. She is the author of Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America (2010). In addition to writing an assortment of articles, she has edited The Gates Ajar (2019) with Claudia Stokes, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems (2014) with Cheryl Tevlin.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in American Literary History
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 165mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 786g
• ISBN-13: 9780192899880
• ISBN-10: 0192899880
• Artikelnr.: 67863232