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Albion W. Tourgee and the fate of democratic individualism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Albion W. Tourgee and the fate of democratic individualism.
Author:	Elliott, Mark Emory.
Description:	502 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Thomas Bender.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-04, Section: A, page: 1516.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-04A.
Subject:	American Studies.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3048813
ISBN:	0493631607

Albion W. Tourgee and the fate of democratic individualism.
Elliott, Mark Emory.

Albion W. Tourgee and the fate of democratic individualism. [electronic resource] - 502 p.

Adviser: Thomas Bender.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2002.

Methodologically, my dissertation combines the techniques of literary criticism and biography as well as cultural and intellectual history. While it takes the outward form of a biography, my dissertation departs from the traditional biographical approach by using a single figure's relation to his society to better understand the society. My approach represents my belief that ideas are best understood not merely in texts or contexts, but in use. Using this approach, I analyze the changing ideas and practices of democratic citizenship, focusing upon the ways in which the antebellum idea of the autonomous “moral self” gave way to a deterministic idea of the self as defined by the outside forces of group belonging and natural laws. I capture the dialogue between Tourgée and his various publics as he fought against the reactionary currents both North and South after the fall of Reconstruction. By following the life of a Radical Republican who held firmly to original principles, my analysis allows for a better understanding of his principles as well as the cultural and intellectual transformations that took place around him throughout his long career.

ISBN: 0493631607Subjects--Topical Terms:

212409
American Studies.

Albion W. Tourgee and the fate of democratic individualism.
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520 # $a This dissertation examines the career of Albion W. Tourgée, prominent lawyer, author, and civil rights activist, who both bore witness to and participated in the struggle over the meaning of equal citizenship in America after the Civil War. I argue that Tourgée's wide-ranging attacks on racism, economic injustice, and class prejudice were derived from his particular notion of the self and of the sanctity of individual moral being that I have termed “political individualism.” Finding its fullest expression in the antebellum abolitionist movement, political individualism was adopted to postwar politics by Radical Republicans like Tourgée who promoted the principle of equal citizenship and respect for the moral autonomy of all citizens. By using Tourgée's public career and political writings as an interpretive lens, my dissertation examines the struggle over the meaning of equal citizenship in America and elucidates the process by which the Northern public shrank from the egalitarian implications of the political and constitutional revolution of the 1860s.
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