Young America : the flowering of democracy in New York City
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Young America : the flowering of democracy in New York City
（Oxford paperbacks）
Oxford University Press, 2000
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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