Immunity's Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Immunity’s Sovereignty and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Literature  tracks flashpoint events in U.S. history, constituting a genealogy of the effectiveness and resilience of the concept of immunity in democratic culture. Rick Rodriguez argues that following the American Revolution the former colonies found themselves subject to foreign and domestic threats imperiling their independence. Wars with North African regencies, responses to the Haitian revolution, reactions to the s