The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770-1870

Trish Loughran

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Paper, 568 pages, 26 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-13909-0
$26.50 / £18.50

September, 2007
Cloth, 568 pages, 26 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-13908-3
$75.00 / £52.00

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Preface: A View from the Capitol: The Unfinished Work of US Nation Building

1. U.S. Print Culture: The Factory of Fragments

Part One - The Book’s Two Bodies: Print Culture and National Founding, 1776-1789

2. Disseminating Common Sense: Thomas Paine and the Scene of Revolutonary Print

Culture

3. The Republic in Print: Ratification as Material Text, 1787-1788

Part Two: The Nation in Fragments: Federal Representation and its Discontents,

1787-1789

4. Virtual Nation: State-Based Identity and Federalist Fantasy

5. Metrobuilding: The Production of Federalist Space

Part Three: The Overextended Republic: Slavery, Abolition, and National Space,

1790-1870

6. Abolitionist Nation: The Space of Organized Abolition, 1790-1840

7. Slavery on the Move: From Fugitive Slave to Virtual Citizen

Conclusion: The Due Process of Nationalism

Related Subjects

• American Literature
• American Studies

About the Author

Trish Loughran received her B.A. from Rutgers University and her masters and doctorate degrees from the University of Chicago. She has curated print and material artifact exhibits at the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia and the David Library of the American Revolution in Washington Crossing, PA, and has held fellowships from the Bibliographical Society of America, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Huntington Library, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently associate professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches and writes about early U.S. culture.

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