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The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture
Gillian Brown
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Hardcover. This work examines the theories of reading developed by John Locke to show how a revolutionary attitude towards authority was disseminated throughout the colonies. The book traces the Lockean legacy through 18th century children's literature to show how his emphasis on "consent" was influential. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSY; HBJK; HBLH; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 550.
What made the United States what it is began long before a shot was fired at a redcoat in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1775. It began quietly in homes and schoolrooms across the colonies in the reading lessons women gave to children. Just as the Protestant revolt originated in a practice of individual reading of the Bible, so the theories of reading developed by John Locke were the means by which a revolutionary attitude toward authority was disseminated throughout the British colonies in North America that would come to form in the United States. Gillian Brown takes us ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
245
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674002982
SKU
V9780674002982
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According to Brown, Locke furnishes American culture with a key political and psychological innovation: the understanding of the provisional state of childhood as simultaneously a social institution and a paradigm of freedom. Locke's entitlement of childhood with rights and desires is a critical element in the formation of the liberal state. Brown convincingly demonstrates that the story of the consenting ... Read more