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Forms of freedom : aesthetics, law, and politics in the American Renaissance
Fonte: University of Rochester
Publicador: University of Rochester
Tipo: Tese de Doutorado
Formato: Number of Pages:vii, 244 leaves
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Dept. of English, 2012.; Forms of Freedom: Aesthetics, Law, and Politics in the American Renaissance
reconsiders the relationship between aesthetics and democratic authority during the most
tumultuous period of American history: the decade before the Civil War. It argues that,
for antebellum Americans, aesthetics and law were not just related, but mutually
informing categories. The United States’ emergent national identity hinged on both its
perception of itself as a nation devoted to universal principles of justice and democratic
sovereignty—in a word, “freedom”—and the preservation of those sacred principles by
foundational texts that gave formal expression to them. This was a particular problem for
the United States in the 1850s, as the nation became increasingly divided over the
conflict between its abstract and universalist ideals, and its established legal and political
institutions—notably slavery. The simultaneous and conflicting emphasis on the authority
of texts, the autonomy of the individual, and the need for rational consensus thus created
fundamental dilemmas that troubled Americans deeply during the period that was long
seen as a time of the cultural flowering of the potentialities of democracy.
This dissertation argues...
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