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Propaganda 1776: Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America de Russ Castronovo

Propaganda 1776: Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America: Oxford Studies in American Literary History

Autor Russ Castronovo
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 sep 2014
Propaganda 1776 reframes the culture of the U.S. Revolution and early Republic, revealing it to be rooted in a vast network of propaganda. Truth, clarity, and honesty were declared virtues of the period-but rumors, falsehoods, forgeries, and unauthorized publication were no less the life's blood of liberty. Looking at famous patriots like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine; the playwright Mary Otis Warren; and the poet Philip Freneau, Castronovo provides various anecdotes that demonstrate the ways propaganda was - contrary to our instinctual understanding - fundamental to democracy rather than antithetical to it. By focusing on the persons and methods involved in Revolutionary communications, Propaganda 1776 both reconsiders the role that print culture plays in historical transformation and reexamines the widely relevant issue of how information circulates in a democracy.
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ISBN-13: 9780199354900
ISBN-10: 0199354901
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 12 halftones
Dimensiuni: 157 x 244 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Oxford Studies in American Literary History

Locul publicării:New York, United States

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... both books have done a service to the field of early North American studies in pushing our understandings of rumor, rhetoric, and, yes, propagandistic communications forward. This fascinating field, once opened, should continue to yield new insights and prompt new methods of analysis. We owe a debt to each of these authors for his work in this area.
Writing as one of the leading scholars of American Studies today, Castronovo handles these historical and contemporary questions with verve and insight. Propaganda 1776 never shies away from raising inconvenient truths about the American Revolution.
Neo-whig historians attacked progressive historians who debunked patriot 'propaganda' by telling us that American revolutionaries were true believers, if ideological, and radical in ways we can embrace without much reservation. Too often this has devolved into another version of American exceptionalism. Russ Castronovo has another take on their political talents: he finds a creative resistance to power in the modes of dissemination as much as their message. The radicalism of the Revolution is back up for grabs in this fascinating corrective.
Castronovo deftly-even audaciously-shuttles his way back and forth across the last three centuries to uncover the democratic work of propaganda operative at the nation's founding and continuing to this day. Understanding propaganda as a lateral and volatile form of 'communications in motion,' Castronovo especially challenges our ideas about Revolutionary-era texts, redefining what they meant by recovering how they moved. Propaganda 1776 will be of great interest to scholars of U.S. literary, communications, media and political history.
Propaganda 1776 is an elegantly written, compellingly conceptualized book. A provocative read from page to page, it makes an original argument about the American Revolution by reviving and revivifying the concept of propaganda.
In Propaganda 1776, Russ Castronovo sets forth a bold new paradigm of early American letters one that describes the printscape of revolutionary era writing in vivid terms, and locates the meaning and significance of texts in their capacity to spread and propagate rather than in their truth content. This important book challenges us to reconsider pieties of the Habermasian public sphere and classical republicanism in early America and invites rich speculation on the relation of media and democracy.
This is a refreshing and highly readable contribution to the field of early American Studies that at the same time holds up a mirror to the hashtag activists of today.

Notă biografică

Russ Castronovo is is Dorothy Draheim Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era; Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States; and Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom.