Reading the Early Republic.(Book Review)

From: Early American Literature | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Reading the Early Republic.

ROBERT A. FERGUSON. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 358 pp.

At the end of the introduction to Robert Ferguson's Reading the Early Republic, we find a claim of methodology as scrupulous in its ambition as it is curious in its provenance. In proposing that early republican texts have been "either forgotten or flattened in later ideological manipulations of them" (7), Ferguson invokes the legal theory of "textualism" as a means of recovering the dynamic contingencies of literary utterance and social circumstance in a historical moment ...

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