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Reinventing Patriarchy: Washington Irving and the Autoerotics of the American Imaginary

Reinventing Patriarchy: Washington Irving and the Autoerotics of the American Imaginary C. miChael hurst University of  Bua ff lo Reinventing Patriarchy Washington Irving and the Autoerotics of the American Imaginary I was myself last night, but I fell asleep on the mountain, and they’ve changed my gun, and every thing’s changed, and I’m changed, and I can’t tell what’s my name, or who I am! —Rip Van Winkle When Rip Van Winkle awakens from his twen yty- ear sleep, the past remains wholly unavailable to him; bereft of all familiarity, stranded in an alien environment, Rip must create an origin story that not only doubles as the story of the new nation he stumbles into but also resolves the threat to patriarchy posed by the Dame Van Winkles of the world. But what possibilities—besides the thin mountain air that surrounds him— are available as the basis of this new national iden e Th   tiS ty? ketch  Book makes it clear that the old English domestic order that it valorizes as the ideal structure of national identity is gone forever, if, indeed, it ever existed in the first place. Infected by the rise of capitalism, domesticity, whether in England or America, can no longer serve as a site of untrammeled patri- archal http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Reinventing Patriarchy: Washington Irving and the Autoerotics of the American Imaginary

Hurst, C. Michael.
Early American Literature , Volume 47 (3) – Oct 26, 2012
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C. miChael hurst University of  Bua ff lo Reinventing Patriarchy Washington Irving and the Autoerotics of the American Imaginary I was myself last night, but I fell asleep on the mountain, and they’ve changed my gun, and every thing’s changed, and I’m changed, and I can’t tell what’s my name, or who I am! —Rip Van Winkle When Rip Van Winkle awakens from his twen yty- ear sleep, the past remains wholly unavailable to him; bereft of all familiarity, stranded in an alien environment, Rip must create an origin story that not only doubles as the story of the new nation he stumbles into but also resolves the threat to patriarchy posed by the Dame Van Winkles of the world. But what possibilities—besides the thin mountain air that surrounds him— are available as the basis of this new national iden e Th   tiS ty? ketch  Book makes it clear that the old English domestic order that it valorizes as the ideal structure of national identity is gone forever, if, indeed, it ever existed in the first place. Infected by the rise of capitalism, domesticity, whether in England or America, can no longer serve as a site of untrammeled patri- archal

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Early American Literature – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Oct 26, 2012

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