Republic of letters : the American intellectual community, 1776-1865

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Republic of letters : the American intellectual community, 1776-1865

Gilman M. Ostrander

Madison House, c1999

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes index

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: cloth ISBN 9780945612636

内容説明

By tracing the rise of a national intellectual elite to the conditions presented by the American Revolution, to the nature of eighteenth-century educational institutions, and the reading that was available in those institutions, Ostrander shows how and why literary elites were constituted, and what their relationship was to the power structures of that world. He also examines the attempts of these elites to form institutions patterned after European models at the same time forge new institutions characteristic of their new nation. Republic of Letters is a sweeping account of this literary class in the United States, the serious writers and readers from Independence to the Civil War.

目次

Chapter 1 The Collegiate Aristocracy Chapter 2 The Philadelphia Enlightenment Chapter 3 Republic of Belles Lettres Chapter 4 Knickerbocker New York Chapter 5 Brahmin Boston Chapter 6 Literati in Democratic-Whig America Chapter 7 The South in the Literary Republic Chapter 8 Bostonization of the Literary Republic Chapter 9 Epilogue: The Academy of Arts and Letters, 1904-1909 Chapter 10 Notes Chapter 11 Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780945612698

内容説明

While much has been written about intellectual elites in American history from New England Puritans in the seventeenth century to New York Jews in the twentieth, little scholarly attention has been paid to the ongoing history of what Henry Adams called "the literary class of the United States," considered as a distinct community within the national democratic society. Leading spokesmen for this American literary culture, such as Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Adams, Nathaniel Hawthorn, Daniel Webster, and Edgar Allen Poe, were not average Americans at all. As eminent intellectuals they were uncommon men, and to present them as representing the American Mind served falsely to intellectualize the national democratic mentality, while falsely democratizing the intellectual elite of which they were leading members. This class of reading men and women has always constituted no more than a small fraction of the American public, yet their influence on the nation's intellectual development-both public and private-continues to be profound. Republic of Letters is a sweeping account of this literary class in the United States, the serious readers and especially writers from Independence to the Civil War.

目次

Chapter 1 The Collegiate Aristocracy Chapter 2 The Philadelphia Enlightenment Chapter 3 Republic of Belles Lettres Chapter 4 Knickerbocker New York Chapter 5 Brahmin Boston Chapter 6 Literati in Democratic-Whig America Chapter 7 The South in the Literary Republic Chapter 8 Bostonization of the Literary Republic Chapter 9 Epilogue: The Academy of Arts and Letters, 1904-1909 Chapter 10 Notes Chapter 11 Index

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