The claims of experience : autobiography and American democracy / Nolan Bennett.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190060725 (ebook) :Subject(s): Autobiography -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190060695DDC classification: 920.00973 LOC classification: CT34.U6Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Why have so many figures throughout American history proclaimed their life stories when confronted by great political problems? 'The Claims of Experience' provides a new theory for what makes autobiography political throughout the history of the United States and today. Across five chapters, the text examines the democratic crises that encouraged a diverse cast of figures to tell their stories: Benjamin Franklin amid the revolutionary era and its aftermath, Frederick Douglass in the antebellum South and in abolitionist movements, Henry Adams in the Gilded Age and its anxieties of industrial change, Emma Goldman among the first Red Scare and state opposition to radical speech, and Whittaker Chambers amid the second Red Scare that initiated the anticommunist turn of modern conservatism.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Also issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why have so many figures throughout American history proclaimed their life stories when confronted by great political problems? 'The Claims of Experience' provides a new theory for what makes autobiography political throughout the history of the United States and today. Across five chapters, the text examines the democratic crises that encouraged a diverse cast of figures to tell their stories: Benjamin Franklin amid the revolutionary era and its aftermath, Frederick Douglass in the antebellum South and in abolitionist movements, Henry Adams in the Gilded Age and its anxieties of industrial change, Emma Goldman among the first Red Scare and state opposition to radical speech, and Whittaker Chambers amid the second Red Scare that initiated the anticommunist turn of modern conservatism.
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