ISBN : 9780190627539
American Enchantment presents a new understanding of the social order after the American Revolution, one that enacts the concept of enchantment as a unique way of describing and coalescing popular power and social affiliation.
Introduction; Chapter 1: American Civil Mysticism; Chapter 2: George Washington vs. The Phantom People: Rival Sovereignties Between Past and Future; Chapter 3: Vox Populi, Vox Dei: Enchanted Subjectivity in Wieland and the Post-Revolutionary World; Chapter 4: Changing by enchantment : Washington Irving's Sketch Book Hermeneutics; Chapter 5: Magical Vanishing Point: Missing People in the Revolutionary Romance; Coda; Notes