Civic Longing : The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship / Carrie Hyde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hyde, Carrie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Politics and literature.

Citizenship--United States--History--18th century.

Citizenship.

Citizenship--United States--History--19th century.

Citizenship in literature.

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Citizenship--United States--Philosophy.

Law and literature--United States--History.

Law and literature.

Literature and society--United States--History.

Literature and society.

Political culture--United States--History.

Political culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

No Constitutional definition of citizenship existed until the 14th Amendment in 1868. Carrie Hyde looks at the period between the Revolution and the Civil War when the cultural and juridical meaning of citizenship was still up for grabs. She recovers numerous speculative traditions that made and remade citizenship's meaning in this early period.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

I. READING "CITIZENSHIP"

Introduction

1. The Retroactive Invention of Citizenship

II. THE HIGHER LAWS OF CITIZENSHIP

2. "Citizenship in Heaven"

3. Citizens of Nature

III. THE LETTERED CITIZEN

4. The Elsewhere of Citizenship

5. Stateless Fictions

Coda: Wong Kim Ark and "The Man Without a Country"

Appendix: Bible Translations

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-294) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780674981720

0674981723

9780674981713

0674981715

OCLC:

1035158242