{"product_id":"the-traumatic-colonel-9781479842537","title":"The Traumatic Colonel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cbr\u003eAmerican political fantasy, the Founding Fathers loom large, at once historical\u003cbr\u003eand mythical figures. In The Traumatic Colonel, Michael J. Drexler and\u003cbr\u003eEd White examine the Founders as imaginative fictions, characters in the\u003cbr\u003especifically literary sense, whose significance emerged from narrative elements\u003cbr\u003eclustered around them. From the revolutionary era through the 1790s, the Founders\u003cbr\u003etook shape as a significant cultural system for thinking about politics, race,\u003cbr\u003eand sexuality. Yet after 1800, amid the pressures of the Louisiana Purchase and\u003cbr\u003ethe Haitian Revolution, this system could no longer accommodate the deep\u003cbr\u003eanxieties about the United States as a slave nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrexler\u003cbr\u003eand White assert that the most emblematic of the political tensions of the time\u003cbr\u003eis the figure of Aaron Burr, whose rise and fall were detailed in the\u003cbr\u003eliterature of his time:  his electoral tie with Thomas Jefferson in 1800,\u003cbr\u003ethe accusations of seduction, the notorious duel with Alexander Hamilton, his\u003cbr\u003emachinations as the schemer of a breakaway empire, and his spectacular treason\u003cbr\u003etrial. The authors venture a psychoanalytically-informed exploration of post-revolutionary\u003cbr\u003eAmerica to suggest that the figure of “Burr” was fundamentally a displaced\u003cbr\u003efantasy for addressing the Haitian Revolution. Drexler and White expose how the\u003cbr\u003ehistorical and literary fictions of the nation’s founding served to repress the\u003cbr\u003elarger issue of the slave system and uncover the Burr myth as the crux of that\u003cbr\u003erepression. Exploring early American novels, such as the works of Charles\u003cbr\u003eBrockden Brown and Tabitha Gilman Tenney, as well as the pamphlets, polemics,\u003cbr\u003etracts, and biographies of the early republican period, the authors speculate\u003cbr\u003ethat this flourishing of political writing illuminates the notorious gap in\u003cbr\u003eU.S. literary history between 1800 and 1820.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael J. Drexler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274286444795,"sku":"9781479842537","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_4d92e77e-4b34-4760-b66d-b931830a2dda.jpg?v=1777609713","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-traumatic-colonel-9781479842537","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}