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04477aam a2200553 i 4500 001 711B55EE4DE711E4A85DE8D9DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20141007010118 008 140404t20142014nyu b 001 0deng 010 $a 2013049743 020 $a 1479842532 (paper : acid-free paper) 020 $a 9781479842537 (paper : acid-free paper) 020 $a 1479871672 (cloth : acid-free paper) 020 $a 9781479871674 (cloth : acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)863195427 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCO $d BUF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a nwht--- $a nwht--- 050 00 $a E302.6.B9 $b D74 2014 082 00 $a 973.4/6092 $2 23 084 $a HIS031000 $a LIT004020 $a HIS031000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Drexler, Michael J., $e author. 245 14 $a The traumatic colonel : $b the founding fathers, slavery, and the phantasmatic Aaron Burr / $c Michael J. Drexler and Ed White. 264 1 $a New York : $b New York University Press, $c 2014 300 $a xxvi, 207 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a America and the long 19th century 500 $a "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso. 520 2 $a "In American political fantasy, the Founding Fathers loom large, at once historical and mythical figures. In The Traumatic Colonel, Michael J. Drexler and Ed White examine the Founders as imaginative fictions, characters in the specifically literary sense, whose significance emerged from narrative elements clustered around them. From the revolutionary era through the 1790s, the Founders took shape as a significant cultural system for thinking about politics, race, and sexuality. Yet after 1800, amid the pressures of the Louisiana Purchase and the Haitian Revolution, this system could no longer accommodate the deep anxieties about the United States as a slave nation. Drexler and White assert that the most emblematic of the political tensions of the time is the figure of Aaron Burr, whose rise and fall were detailed in the literature of his time: his electoral tie with Thomas Jefferson in 1800, the accusations of seduction, the notorious duel with Alexander Hamilton, his machinations as the schemer of a breakaway empire, and his spectacular treason trial. The authors venture a psychoanalytically-informed exploration of post-revolutionary America to suggest that the figure of 'Burr' was fundamentally a displaced fantasy for addressing the Haitian Revolution. Drexler and White expose how the historical and literary fictions of the nation's founding served to repress the larger issue of the slave system and uncover the Burr myth as the crux of that repression. Exploring early American novels, such as the works of Charles Brockden Brown and Tabitha Gilman Tenney, as well as the pamphlets, polemics, tracts, and biographies of the early republican period, the authors speculate that this flourishing of political writing illuminates the notorious gap in U.S. literary history between 1800 and 1820"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Burrology : Extracts -- Introduction -- The Semiotics of the Founders -- Hors Monde, or the Fantasy Structure of Republicanism -- Female Quixotism and the Fantasy of Region -- Burr's Formation, 1800-1804 -- Burr's Deployment, 1804-1807 -- Conclusion. 600 10 $a Burr, Aaron, $d 1756-1836 $x Public opinion. 600 10 $a Burr, Aaron, $d 1756-1836 $x Influence. 600 10 $a Burr, Aaron, $d 1756-1836 $x In literature. 650 0 $a Slavery $x History $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Haiti $x Influence. $y Revolution, 1791-1804 $x Influence. 650 0 $a Mythology $x History $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Fantasy $x History $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Politics and literature $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a American literature $y 1783-1850 $x History and criticism. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1783-1865 $v Sources. 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800). $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Revolutionary. $2 bisacsh 700 1 $a White, Ed, $d 1965- $e author. 830 0 $a America and the long 19th century. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214024102.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826095521.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=711B55EE4DE711E4A85DE8D9DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search