ISBN
9780674976153
Price
$40.00
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Abstract
In the midst of the transnational turn in American letters and historiography, Carrie Hyde explores the nature of “civic longing,” in which real and imagined outsiders cultivated a desire to be part of the American nation. A work of literary criticism, Hyde argues that, prior to the 14th amendment, citizenship in the U.S. was defined through “culture” rather than law. “In the absence of a centralized legal definition of citizenship,” Hyde writes, questions of citizenship were explored through “political philosophy, Christian theology, natural law, literature, and didactic writing” (8).
DOI
10.31390/cwbr.20.4.06
Recommended Citation
Neem, Johann N.
(2018)
"Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship,"
Civil War Book Review: Vol. 20
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Iss.
4
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DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.20.4.06
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol20/iss4/6
