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Rites of Dissent: Literatures of Enthusiasm and the American Revolution

Rites of Dissent: Literatures of Enthusiasm and the American Revolution John Mac Kilgore Florida State University Rites of Dissent Literatures of Enthusiasm and the American Revolution In a recent television appearance on the Fox Business Network's Follow the Money with Eric Bolling, conservative pundit Ann Coulter compared the slogans of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests to "mob" ideas in the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and even Nazi Germany. "It [the protest rhetoric] all comes from the French Revolution," said Coulter, and thus it represents the "molecular opposite of the beginning of this country, with the American Revolution" ("Coulter"). Coulter testifies to the endurance of a popular historical narrative that juxtaposes the conservative or prudent ideology of the American Revolution and the radical or excessive ideology of the French Revolution. Philosophers and historians, cultural critics and literary scholars, across a wide intellectual spectrum--from Hannah Arendt to Gordon Wood, Antonio Negri to Sacvan Bercovitch--have tended to agree with Coulter on the conservative roots of the American Revolution.1 However one understands its shaping, whether from the vantage point of republicanism or Puritanism, moneyed interests or Lockean liberalism, or some synthesis thereof, the American Revolution certainly was not a movement tending toward radical "mob" ideas, according to most commentators.2 Two http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Rites of Dissent: Literatures of Enthusiasm and the American Revolution

Kilgore, John Mac.
Early American Literature , Volume 48 (2) – Jul 19, 2013
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John Mac Kilgore Florida State University Rites of Dissent Literatures of Enthusiasm and the American Revolution In a recent television appearance on the Fox Business Network's Follow the Money with Eric Bolling, conservative pundit Ann Coulter compared the slogans of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests to "mob" ideas in the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and even Nazi Germany. "It [the protest rhetoric] all comes from the French Revolution," said Coulter, and thus it represents the "molecular opposite of the beginning of this country, with the American Revolution" ("Coulter"). Coulter testifies to the endurance of a popular historical narrative that juxtaposes the conservative or prudent ideology of the American Revolution and the radical or excessive ideology of the French Revolution. Philosophers and historians, cultural critics and literary scholars, across a wide intellectual spectrum--from Hannah Arendt to Gordon Wood, Antonio Negri to Sacvan Bercovitch--have tended to agree with Coulter on the conservative roots of the American Revolution.1 However one understands its shaping, whether from the vantage point of republicanism or Puritanism, moneyed interests or Lockean liberalism, or some synthesis thereof, the American Revolution certainly was not a movement tending toward radical "mob" ideas, according to most commentators.2 Two

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