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American tyrannies in the long age of Napoleon /

What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? This book traces some of ways that 19th-century Americans used the figure of Napoleon to understand the perameters of tyranny and the perversions it introduced into both their polity and society.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duquette, Elizabeth, 1963- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:Oxford studies in American literary history.
Subjects:
Napoleon > I, > Emperor of the French, > 1769-1821 > Influence.
Napoleon > I, > Emperor of the French, > 1769-1821.
United States > History > 1783-1865.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 > Foreign public opinion, American.
Dictatorship.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1783-1865.
Dictature.
dictatorships.
Social History.
HISTORY.
American.
United States.
History of the Americas.
History.
1783-1865
Electronic books.
Informational works.
Documents d'information.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Halftitle page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Series page
  • Dedication page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Preaching and Narrative in Piers Plowman
  • Literature and Pulpit
  • Holy Church and the Story of Salvation
  • Time and Narrative
  • 1. Preaching on the Coronation: The Prologue and the Sermon of Conscience
  • 'To counseillen þe Kyng and þe Commune saue'
  • Conflicted Voices
  • Henry Harclay and the Crown of England
  • Conscience and the 'lawe of lif '
  • 2. Preaching on the Half-Acre: Fear, Hope, and Narrative in the Second Vision
  • Storm Damage
  • Signs of the Times
  • Piers Plowman and the Hope of 'Hire'
  • Piers the Pardoner
  • 3. Preachers and Minstrels: Study's Complaint and the Feast of Conscience
  • Curious Preaching
  • Tales of Tobit
  • Richard Alkerton's Curry Comb
  • 'Murye Tales' at the Feast of Conscience
  • 4. Preaching on the Lifetime: Sermons and the 'Self-Constant' Subject in Piers Plowman
  • Life Lessons
  • Fortune's Mirror, Scripture's Sermon
  • Ymaginatif and the 'Self-constant' Subject
  • Last Things
  • 5. Histories of the Self, the World, and the Sermon: Anima and the Tree of Charity
  • 'Whider I sholde and wherof I cam': Anima and the Narrated Self
  • The Tree of Charity and the Shape of History
  • 'Ite in vniuersum mundum et predicate': Christian Evangelism and the Preaching of Mohammed
  • Coda: Atonement and Emplotment at the Harrowing of Hell
  • Works Cited
  • Index.