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In rsospnee to the final question, Loughran is arguing that while she agrees with Warner that there was a growing sense of nationalism in the 1770s and 1780s, this nationalism was not based on uniformity and widespread print culture as Warner believes, but that a nonintegrated nation based on local and state regions is what enabled a growing feeling of nationalism. Print for Loughran was locally produced and consumed, and because works such as Common Sense and The Federalist Papers were produced, distributed, and circulated in a haphazard way allowed the ideas in them to be accepted. Loughran argues that if print culture was as unified as Warner believes, then a national republican ideology would never have formed because different areas and states had significantly different opinions.
Loughran rfrees to Warner’s idea of the public as a necessary phantom of the ratification process (110). Her use of the word phantom is striking, because she is promoting the idea that Warner’s public never actually existed (except perhaps in the minds of the founding fathers, and later in the minds of historians, as we discussed last class). Loughran argues that only because there was no public was the idea of a public document able to come into being. There was no public to resist being classified as such, under terms to which they did not necessarily agree. There could never be a national conversation about what we the people would say or believe; thus, the poor nature of communication systems at the time are what enabled this phantom public to ever be called into being.When Loughran takes on Warner specifically, she argues that Warner gives print too much centrality for this particular time period, since there were many other mediums such as letters, etc that were more readily available. Additionally, Loughran argues that dissemination of print was intrinsically personal at this time (people would send newspapers to their friends, and so on), and therefore Warner’s ideal of an anonymous text is not actually very applicable. Ultimately, Loughran stresses the need to look at the material culture of print, rather than just at the ideological side. Because of the time period and the specific limitations of print technology and dissemination, Warner’s ideas become less realistic.
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