Vernon Louis Parrington

The Romantic Revolution in America: 1800-1860 (eBook, ePUB)

Main Currents in American Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

The development of literature between 1800 and 1860 in the United States was heavily influenced by two wars. The War of 1812 hastened the development of nineteenth-century ideals, and the Civil War uprooted certain growths of those vigorous years. The half century between these dramatic episodes was a period of extravagant vigor, the final outcome being the emergence of a new middle class.

Parrington argues that America was becoming a new world with undreamed potential. This new era was no longer content with the ways of a founding generation. The older America of colonial days had been static, rationalistic, inclined to pessimism, and fearful of innovation. During the years between the Peace of Paris (1763) and the end of the War of 1812, older America was dying. The America that emerged, which is the focal point of this volume, was a shifting, restless world, eager to better itself, bent on finding easier roads to wealth than the plodding path of natural increase.

The culture of this period also changed. Formal biographies written in this period often gave way to eulogy; it was believed that a writer was under obligation to speak well of the dead. Consequently, scarcely a single commentary of the times can be trusted, and the critic is reduced to patching together his account out of scanty odds and ends. A new introduction by Bruce Brown highlights the life of Vernon Louis Parrington and explains the importance of this second volume in the Pulitzer Prize-winning study.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 531
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351474818
• Artikelnr.: 48867293

Autorenporträt

Michael Young

Inhaltsangabe

Book One: The Mind of the South
One: The Virginia Renaissance
I: The Old Dominion
II: The Heritage Of Jeffersonianism
III: John Marshall
IV: The Older Plantation Mind
V: Adventures in Romance
Two: The Renaissance Of Slavery
I: Southern Imperialism
II: Winds of Political Doctrine
III: The Dream of a Greek Democracy
IV: Adventures in Belles Lettres
Three: The Romance of the West
I: New Worlds
II: Two Spokesmen of the West
III: The Frontier In Letters
Book Two: The Mind of the Middle East
I: The Old Capital
II: The New Capital
III: Two Knickerbocker Romantics
IV: James Fenimore Cooper
V: Some Contributions of New England
Book Three: The Mind of New England
One: The Twilight of Federalism
I: The Passing of The Tie-Wig School
II: Winds of Political Doctrine
Two: The Rise of Liberalism
I: The Renaissance
II: Liberalism and Calvinism
III: Liberalism and the Social Conscience
IV: 4Certain Militants
Three: The Transcendental Mind
I: The Genesis Of Transcendentalism
II: Ralph Waldo Emerson
III: Henry Thoreau
IV: Theodore Parker
V: Margaret Fuller
Four: Other Aspects of the New England Mind
I: The Reign of the Genteel
II: 2Nathaniel Hawthorne
III: The Authentic Brahmin