Young America

The Flowering of Democracy in New York City

AvEdward L. Widmer

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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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:2000-10-19
Mått:153 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:472 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195140620

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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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Edward L. Widmer has written a winning and utterly invigorating book that rescues Young America from its own self-destruction, brilliantly restoring its standing amid the pre-eminent political and cultural developments of the ante-bellum period ... This is an exemplary study in many ways. Widmer's grasp of the subtlest currents of the era is unfailing, and it is a rare author whose skill as a stylist so complements the able orators and writers he brings to light. Mark Greif, TLS 1/10/99

Innehållsförteckning

1: The Politics of Culture: O'Sullivan and the Democratic Review2: Democracy and Literature3: Young America in Literature: Duyckink, Melville, and the Mutual Admiration Society4: Representation Without Taxation: Art for the People5: The Young American Lexicon: Field and Codification6: Young America Redux7: Epilogue: Forever Young