Founding Fictions

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Founding Fictions is written by Jennifer R. Mercieca and published by University Alabama Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0817357343 (ISBN 10) and 9780817357344 (ISBN 13).

An extended analysis of how Americans imagined themselves as citizens between 1764 and 1845 Founding Fictions develops the concept of a “political fiction,” or a narrative that people tell about their own political theories, and analyzes how republican and democratic fictions positioned American citizens as either romantic heroes, tragic victims, or ironic partisans. By re-telling the stories that Americans have told themselves about citizenship, Mercieca highlights an important contradiction in American political theory and practice: that national stability and active citizen participation are perceived as fundamentally at odds.