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100 1 0 _aConstantinesco, Thomas
_eauthor
245 0 0 _aFarce on Neutral Ground: Romance and Revolution in James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy
260 _c2009.
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520 _aUnder cover of glorifying the Revolution as a patriotic struggle for democracy, The Spy, Cooper's first historical romance, orchestrates retrospectively the advent of a genteel republic. The fiction of history thus serves to legitimize the social hierarchy of Cooper's America. Yet this study argues that, even as the narrative unfolds its conservative logic, the writing of the romance exposes the artificiality of its own project. Pointing to its status as fiction, The Spy depicts the Revolution as a masquerade and lays bare the United States' duplicitous origins.
690 _ahistory
690 _aRevolution
690 _amasquerade
690 _aThe Spy
690 _aneutrality
690 _aJ. F. Cooper
786 0 _nRevue française d’études américaines | o 118 | 4 | 2009-03-10 | p. 30-48 | 0397-7870
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2008-4-page-30?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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