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American tyrannies in the long age of Napoleon / Elizabeth Duquette.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duquette, Elizabeth, 1963- author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in American literary history.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in American literary history
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Despotism in literature.
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Foreign public opinion, American.
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.
- United States--History--1783-1865.
- United States.
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821--Influence.
- Napoleon.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Dispatches
- Introduction: seeing tyranny
- Chapter one: Tyranny in America, or, David Walker
- Chapter two: the tyrannical style of American politics
- Chapter three: raking imperial muck
- Chapter four: the bedazzler
- Chapter five: Napoleonic codes
- Chapter six: Sejour's spectacles
- Chapter seven: young men from the provinces
- Coda: Napoleon complex, or mad about Napoleon
- Bibliography
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 26, 2025).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Duquette, Elizabeth American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon
- ISBN:
- 9780191986352
- 0191986356
- 9780192899897
- 0192899899
- 9780192899903
- 0192899902
- OCLC:
- 1395141839
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