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George Washington's Romance: Plotting the Federal City, 1791–1800

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2009

Sarah Luria
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Washington, D.C., was born from the marriage of literary, economic, and political revolutions of the late 18th century, when the expansion of the marketplace, the rise of the novel, and the increased circulation of print spawned a bourgeois public sphere and, with it, the modern nation-state. Washington, D.C., was from the start an imagined city, created through the circulation of booster literature to attract investors and so solidify a rational political order. Washington, D.C., arose precisely from this need to ground the imagined landscapes of the Enlightenment, to turn the visionary into the visible and political theory into fact.

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Prospects , Volume 26 , October 2001 , pp. 1 - 34
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2001

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