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Bibliography

Working bibliography and research apparatus.

This working bibliography gathers the major primary sources, historiography, and theoretical texts currently scaffolding the dissertation. It is meant to function as a back matter shelf for the linked book structure rather than as a final committee-ready bibliography.

Primary sources and editions

Bailyn, Bernard, ed. The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters during the Struggle over Ratification. 2 vols. New York: Library of America, 1993.
Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay. The Federalist Papers. Edited by Clinton Rossiter. New York: Signet Classics, 2003.
Kaminski, John P., Gaspare J. Saladino, Richard Leffler, Charles H. Schoenleber, and Margaret A. Hogan, eds. The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976-.
Storing, Herbert J., ed. The Complete Anti-Federalist. 7 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Storing, Herbert J. What the Anti-Federalists Were For: The Political Thought of the Opponents of the Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902.

Founding, ratification, and political economy

Appleby, Joyce. Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s. New York: New York University Press, 1984.
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.
Cornell, Saul. The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1999.
Rakove, Jack N. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. New York: Vintage Books, 1997.
Reid, John Phillip. The Concept of Representation in the Age of the American Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1969.

Public sphere, performance, and political form

Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Arendt, Hannah. Between Past and Future. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
Brecht, Bertolt. Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic. Edited and translated by John Willett. New York: Hill and Wang, 1964.
Fraser, Nancy. "Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy." Social Text, no. 25/26 (1990): 56-80.
Gorham, Eric B. The Theater of Politics: Hannah Arendt, Political Science, and the Performative Perspective. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.
Warner, Michael. Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Warner, Michael. Publics and Counterpublics. New York: Zone Books, 2002.

Still to expand

Law-and-religion scholarship on Establishment Clause history, blasphemy, symbolic injury, and public theology.
Secondary literature on Arendt and Brecht as resources for legal performance and political judgment.
Work on Supreme Court theater, law and humanities, and legal dramaturgy.