Declaring independence: Jefferson, natural language & the culture of performance
ISBN: 9780804720755
Platform/Publisher: ACLS / Stanford University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time
Subjects: American: Colonial to 1789;

" From the simple fact that Jefferson' s text was intended to be read aloud as a literal declaration of political independence, Fliegelman has woven a truly brilliant picture of Jefferson, the document, and American politics and letters. . . . The result is a profoundly exciting new way of understanding the Declaration, its author, and the performative act of the Revolution itself." -- Isaac Kramnick, Cornell University." Will more or less immediately transform current study of 18th-century American literature and culture." -- Mitchell Breitwieser, University of California, Berkeley.


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