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Texting the Nation: Agencies and Actions in the Declaration of Independence de Michael Ditmore

Texting the Nation: Agencies and Actions in the Declaration of Independence: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture

Autor Michael Ditmore
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 noi 2025
Texting the Nation closely parses the Declaration of Independence’s text and logical argument in grammatical and rhetorical terms to highlight patterns of agency, from the passive voice construction and rearranged parallel arrangement of political principles to the composition history and meaning of the deleted slavery paragraph from the grievances, and then to the heavy Congressional editing of the conclusion, to both add God-language and restore the Lee Resolution for Independence. The book highlights the Virginia background of the Declaration (the Virginia Declaration of Rights, Jefferson’s draft for the Virginia Constitution, and the Lee Resolution), including the Virginia antislavery myth and non-importation movement. Additionally, Texting the Nation includes Declaration criticism, including Timothy Pickering and Jacques Derrida.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032892849
ISBN-10: 1032892846
Pagini: 230
Ilustrații: 12
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

Preface
List of Acronyms
Introduction: The Declaration of Independence and Criticism
Finding "the" Declaration of Independence: Notes on the Text(s)
1. Agent(s)/Agency, Slavery and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century British North America
as Rhetoric (and Some Reality)
2. The Major Premise: Ambiguating The Human Condition, Government, and Divine Passivity
3. The Minor Premise: The Omnipotent Potentate, the Grievances, and Slavery
(and the Virginia Constitution, 1776-1903)
4. Authorizing and Accomplishing Independence: Jefferson's Double-Columned Conclusion, the Return (or Not) of God, and the Multiplying/Dividing Declaration
Conclusion: There’s Something About the Declaration of Independence (But What Is It?)
Index

Notă biografică

Michael Ditmore is Professor of English specializing in early American literature and Great Books at Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, where he has also served as Director of American Studies and Dean of the Humanities/Teacher Education Division. He has previously published on William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, Anne Bradstreet, Elizabeth Ashbridge, Jonathan Edwards, Crèvecoeur, and Benjamin Franklin.

Descriere

Texting the Nation analyzes rhetorical and grammatical patterns of agency in the Declaration's text and three-part logical argument, in the contexts of political and literal slavery, the deleted slavery clause, and the heavily edited conclusion, including slavery background, composition history, and later critical reputation.