Democracy, revolution, and monarchism in early American literature / Paul Downes.

Contents Monarchophobia: reading the mock executions of 1776 -- Crèvecoeur's revolutionary loyalism -- Citizen subjects: the memoirs of Stephen Burroughs and Benjamin Franklin -- An epistemology of the ballot box: Brockden Brown's secrets -- Luxury, effeminacy, corruption: Irving and the gender of democracy -- Afterword: the revolution's last word.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-236) and index.
LCCN 2002017399
ISBN0521813395