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John Lithgows Real Utopia and the Anticapitalist Romance of the Early Republic
Early American Literature Pub Date : 2019-01-01 , DOI: 10.1353/eal.2019.0007
John Mac Kilgore

Abstract:This article analyzes an obscure early American author and activist, John Lithgow, and argues that his 1802 work Equality—a Political Romance deserves our special attention as a groundbreaking piece of writing about economic inequality and the democratic limits of republicanism at the core of the US national project. Specifically, Equality represents a singular development of utopian fiction responding to the political and economic exigencies of its historical moment, and in the process Lith gow inaugurates a variant of the genre—the American anticapitalist romance—that challenges our literary taxonomies, both in terms of utopianism and the literature of the early Republic. It is, finally, the rise of finance capitalism and the protracted de pression of the early national era that conditions John Lithgows serious exploration of anticapitalist ideas and experiment in utopian literature.

中文翻译:

约翰·利思戈的真实乌托邦与早期共和国的反资本主义浪漫

摘要:本文分析了一位默默无闻的美国早期作家和活动家约翰·利思戈,并认为他 1802 年的作品《平等——政治浪漫》值得我们特别关注,因为它是一篇关于经济不平等和共和主义的民主局限的开创性著作作为核心美国国家项目。具体来说,平等代表了乌托邦小说对其历史时刻的政治和经济紧急情况做出回应的独特发展,在这个过程中,莉丝·戈开创了该类型的一种变体——美国反资本主义浪漫主义——它挑战了我们的文学分类,​​无论是在乌托邦主义和共和国早期的文学。终于,
更新日期:2019-01-01
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