of Speculation is autofiction, I don’t mean to imply that it is autobiographical I have no idea whether it is or not. It takes further the self-conscious writing of writers like Marguerite Duras into what Cusk describes as writing as close to herself as possible, a merging of autobiography and fiction, an extreme awareness of the self’s fictional status. Likewise, Anthony’s recent note on autofiction also applies: of Speculation is much funnier than this list would suggest, but otherwise it fits the bill. In 1800, in the midst of the Jefferson-burr election, anti-Federalists such as William Duane reprinted Hamilton's admission of infidelity.This acclaimed 2014 novel of marriage, motherhood, and adultery is a perfect expression of the fictional and even critical style of our time.įive years ago, in homage to James Wood’s famous censure of the late 20th century’s “hysterical realism,” I called this style “penitential realism” and noted some of its most salient characteristics: “a resistance to the kind of holistic plotting that binds the narrative into a fully meaningful structure of co-incidence” “ focus on moral ambiguity, on characters inextricably complicit in their societies’ sufferings, along with an emphasis on negative mental states and affects…shame, guilt, embarrassment, repression, anhedonia” and “a benumbed tone, disenchanted, inert, and baffled, not least by themselves.” Dept. Hamilton tried to buy up all copies of the 1797 pamphlet, but some escaped.
Reynolds … had the merit of a proud bravery, for it showed him willing to endure any personal humiliation rather than a slur on his public integrity" (DAB). Housed in a custom half calf clamshell box.Īlexander Hamilton resigned as Secretary of the Treasury in 1795 two years later "a baseless accusation against his honesty as secretary of the treasury, brought by Monroe and others, forced him to make public confession of his intrigue some years previous with a Mrs. This first edition of 1797 is rare as it was bought up by the Hamilton family in an effort to suppress it, but was ultimately reprinted in 1800 by Hamilton’s political enemies. Octavo, bound in contemporary morocco, marbled endpapers. Rare first edition of one of the major causes célèbres in American governmental history. Philadelphia: John Bioren for John Fenno, 1797.
Observations on Certain Documents Contained in No.V & VI of “The History of the United States for the Year 1796,” in which the Charge of Speculation against Alexander Hamilton, Late Secretary of the Treasury, is Fully Refuted.
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