Virtuous Citizens: Counterpublics and Sociopolitical Agency in Transatlantic Literature
Author:   Kendall McClellan
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
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9780817320812


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   28 February 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Kendall McClellan
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
Imprint:   The University of Alabama Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.428kg
ISBN:  

9780817320812


ISBN 10:   0817320814
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   28 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Private Virtue Goes Public: Civic Activism in the Middling Classes Chapter 2. Gilbert Imlay's ""Static Utopia"": Antidemocratic Radicalism Chapter 3. The Virtue of Self-Government: Fear of, or Faith in, the People Chapter 4. ""Possessed with an Idea"": American Abolitionism and Counterpublic Protest Conclusion: Private Virtue, Counterpublics, and Political Autonomy Notes Bibliography Index"

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By placing political and economic philosophy in dialogue with popular literature, and particularly sentimental novels by women, Virtuous Citizens uncovers transformations in conceptions of civic identity that preceded and enabled the political activism of our own time. McClellan offers a captivating literary history, written in lucid and accessible terms, of the moment when liberalism became central to Anglo-American notions of citizenship. --Juliet Shields, author of Nation and Migration: The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765-1835


By placing political and economic philosophy in dialogue with popular literature, and particularly sentimental novels by women, Virtuous Citizens uncovers transformations in conceptions of civic identity that preceded and enabled the political activism of our own time. McClellan offers a captivating literary history, written in lucid and accessible terms, of the moment when liberalism became central to Anglo-American notions of citizenship. - Juliet Shields, author of Nation and Migration: The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765-1835


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Kendall McClellan is lecturer in the Department of English at California State University Channel Islands. Her peer-reviewed scholarship has appeared in MP: An Online Feminist Journal and the edited collection Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World.

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