Texting the Nation
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Texting the Nation

Agencies and Actions in the Declaration of Independence

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eBook - ePub

Texting the Nation

Agencies and Actions in the Declaration of Independence

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Texting the Nation closely parses the Declaration of Independence's text and logical argument in grammatical and rhetorical terms to highlight patterns of agency, from the passive voice construction and rearranged parallel arrangement of political principles to the composition history and meaning of the deleted slavery paragraph from the grievances, and then to the heavy Congressional editing of the conclusion, to both add God-language and restore the Lee Resolution for Independence. The book highlights the Virginia background of the Declaration (the Virginia Declaration of Rights, Jefferson's draft for the Virginia Constitution, and the Lee Resolution), including the Virginia antislavery myth and non-importation movement. Additionally, Texting the Nation includes Declaration criticism, including Timothy Pickering and Jacques Derrida.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040643648
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Political Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. List of Acronyms
  9. Introduction: The Declaration of Independence and Criticism
  10. Finding “the” Declaration of Independence: Notes on the Text(s)
  11. 1 Agent(s)/Agency, Slavery, and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century British North America as Rhetoric (and Some Reality)
  12. 2 The Major Premise: Ambiguating the Human Condition, Government, and Divine Passivity
  13. 3 The Minor Premise: The Omnipotent Potentate, the Grievances, and Slavery (and the Virginia Constitution, 1776–1903)
  14. 4 Authorizing and Accomplishing Independence: Jefferson’s Double-Columned Conclusion, the Return (or Not) of God, and the Multiplying/Dividing Declaration
  15. Conclusion: There’s Something About the Declaration of Independence (But What Is It?)
  16. Index