Abstract
This essay simply asks how the culture of the pretext prepares a nation not just for a war, but for modern war, with its peculiar mediational circumstances. Focussing on James Madison and his arguments and stratagems leading to the War of 1812, the essay briefly describes and conceptualizes the manufacturing of an emergency that mobilizes a public inclined to fragmentation and dissensus. The constitutional directives laid out by republican print textuality are, in this argument, stressed in ways that endure through American civic and political life.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 21-35 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Canadian Review of American Studies |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2012 |
Keywords
- Constitution
- James Madison
- Republicanism
- War of 1812
- war
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- History
- Literature and Literary Theory