Additional Readings - Week 1

The Concept of Representation:

Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, "The French Revolution in America" in The Age of Federalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 303-373.

Michel Foucault, "The Limits of Representation," in The Order of Things (New York: Vinatge, 1970 [1967]), 217-249.

Thomas Gustafson, Representative Words: Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776-1865 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Christopher Looby, Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).

Edmund Morgan, “The Enigma of Representation,” in Inventing the People, pp. 38-54.

J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman, eds. Representation (New York: Atherton Press, 1968).

Stephen David Ross, "Representation," in The Ring of Representation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992), 29-68.

David Waldstreicher, In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997).

Sheldon S. Wolin, "Vision and Political Imagination," in Politics and Vision (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), 17-20.

Gordon S. Wood, “The Nature of Representation,” from The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969), 162-188.

Gordon S. Wood, “Equality” and “Interests,” in The Radicalism of the American Revolution (New York: Vintage, 1991), 229-270.

The Apotheosis of George Washington:

Adam Greenhalgh, "'Not a Man but a God': The Apotheosis of Gilbert Stuart's Athenaeum Portrait of George Washington," Wintherthur Portfolio 4:1 (Fall 2007): 269-303.

Phoebe Lloyd Jacobs, "John James Barralet and the Apotheosis of George Washington," Winterthur Portfolio 12 (1977).

Barbara Mitnick, George Washington: American Symbol (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1999).

John Morgan, The Life Portraits of Washington and their Replicas (Lancaster: Lancaster Press, 1931).

Alexander Nemerov, "The Ashes of Germanicus and the Skin of Painting: Sublimation and Money in Benjamin West's Agrippina," Yale Journal of Criticism 11 (1998): 11-27.

Barry Schwartz, George Washington, The Making of an American Symbol (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987).

Mark Thistlethwaite, The Image of George Washington: Studies in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American History Painting (New York: Garland, 1979).