American Enchantment Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World Sizemore, Michelle. creator text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. enk Oxford Oxford University Press 2017 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (257 pages) American Enchantment presents a new understanding of the social order after the American Revolution, one that enacts the concept of ""enchantment"" as a unique way of describing and coalescing popular power and social affiliation. Half Title -- American Enchantment -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introductionâ#x80;#x94;â#x80;#x8B;To Hover Like God:Â Enchantment and Rituals of the People, 1787â#x80;#x93;â#x80;#x8B;1837 -- I. After the Kingâ#x80;#x99;s Body -- II. Enchantment 2.0:Â Ritual Mood -- III. Reading for Enchantment -- 1. American Civil Mysticism -- I. Pagan Origins -- II. BecomingÂ One -- III. Maypole Metrics -- IV. The Time and Mood of Merry Mountâ#x80;#x99;s Peculiar People -- V. The People:Â Representational Crisis and Process Ontology -- VI. C17Â Â C19 Vortices VII. From People to â#x80;#x9C;ProfuseÂ .â#x80;#x89;.â#x80;#x89;.Â Miscellanyâ#x80;#x9D; 2. George Washington vs. The Phantom:Â Rival Sovereigns and Long Eighteenth-â#x80;#x8B;Century Insurrection -- I. â#x80;#x9C;They Make the Sovereign a Being of Fantasyâ#x80;#x9D; -- II. The Cult of Washington -- III. The Eternal Time of the People -- IV. Distributive Agency, PartÂ 1:Â Intercorporeality -- V. Distributive Agency, PartÂ 2 (a.k.a., The Fear of Large Republics) -- VI. â#x80;#x9C;Phantom of a Deluded Imaginationâ#x80;#x9D; -- VII. When Are the People? Modern Chivalryâ#x80;#x99;s Frozen Moments 3. Vox Populi, Vox Dei:Â Enchanted Subjectivity in Wieland and the Post-â#x80;#x8B;Revolutionary WorldI. From Deception to Transformation:Â Political Subjects of Enchantment -- II. Prophetic Voice and Enchanted Subjectivity -- III. The New Prophet Is a Ventriloquist:Â Carwinâ#x80;#x99;s Echo -- IV. Political Theology, 1798 -- V. Vital Force Fields -- 4. â#x80;#x9C;Changing by Enchantmentâ#x80;#x9D;: Washington Irvingâ#x80;#x99;s Sketch Book Hermeneutics -- I. How to Write Colonial History -- II. Writing for the Barbarians:Â Literature, Culture, and Colonialist Comparisons in the Early Republic III. The Rites and Times of the Grand TourIV. Constellated Comparisons and the Temporality of Enchantment -- V. â#x80;#x9C;Rip Van Winkleâ#x80;#x9D; and the Historiography of Enchantment -- VI. A Miscellaneous People -- 5. Magical Vanishing Point:Â Missing People in the Revolutionary Romance -- I. PresentÂ Gap -- II. When We Were Contemporary:Â The Historical Present and the Historical Romance -- III. â#x80;#x9C;Peter Rugg, the Missing Manâ#x80;#x9D; and the Missing Men of the Revolution -- IV. The Vortex(t) of History -- V. Love and Longing in The Linwoods VI. â#x80;#x9C;Placing Men in New Relationsâ#x80;#x9D;Conclusionâ#x80;#x94;â#x80;#x8B;Future Passing:Â Anticipatory-â#x80;#x8B;Reading the Historical Romance -- Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- American literature 1783-1850 History and criticism American literature 19th century History and criticism National characteristics, American, in literature United States Intellectual life 1783-1865 Littérature américaine 1783-1850 Histoire et critique Littérature américaine 19e siècle Histoire et critique États-Unis Vie intellectuelle 1783-1865 LITERARY CRITICISM Regional American 18th Century Modern 19th Century American literature Intellectual life National characteristics, American, in literature United States 1783-1899 fast PS208 .S59 2017 810.9002 American Enchantment : Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World Sizemore, Michelle. Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2017 9780190627546 0190627549 9780190627553 0190627557 0190627530 9780190627539 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/25458 EBLCP 171104 20260319164325.0 in00005715248 eng