Young America

The Flowering of Democracy in New York City

AvEdward L. Widmer

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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This study examines the meteoric rise and subsequent disintegration of a vigorous American literary-political movement in the 1840s. Calling itself 'Young America', the group found a mouthpiece in the Democratic Review, a literary magazine funded by the Democratic Party and edited by the brash and charismatic John O'Sullivan. The Review was not only a major voice in American politics, but also sponsored such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman and greatly inflenced Herman Melville, before it and Young America faded from the national consciousness after the Mexican-American War.

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Utgivningsdatum:1999-03-25
Mått:163 x 242 x 21 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:300
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195100501

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Edward L. Widmer has taught at Harvard University and the Rhode Island School of Design, and received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the John Carter Brown Library, and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research. He is currently a White House speechwriter and lives in Washington with his wife and son.

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Innehållsförteckning

1: The Politics of Culture: O'Sullivan and the Democratic Review 2: Democracy and Literature 3: Young America in Literature: Duyckink, Melville, and the Mutual Admiration Society 4: Representation Without Taxation: Art for the People 5: The Young American Lexicon: Field and Codification 6: Young America Redux 7: Epilogue: Forever Young