Author: Selah NorthPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
An Oration Delivered at Goshen, July 4th, 1817
Author: Selah NorthAn Oration, Delivered at Goshen, July 4., 1817
Author: Selah NorthPublisher:
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes
Author: David WaldstreicherPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
In this innovative study, David Waldstreicher investigates the importance of political festivals in the early American republic. Drawing on newspapers, broadsides, diaries, and letters, he shows how patriotic celebrations and their reproduction in a rapidly expanding print culture helped connect local politics to national identity. Waldstreicher reveals how Americans worked out their political differences in creating a festive calendar. Using the Fourth of July as a model, members of different political parties and social movements invented new holidays celebrating such events as the ratification of the Constitution, Washington's birthday, Jefferson's inauguration, and the end of the slave trade. They used these politicized rituals, he argues, to build constituencies and to make political arguments on a national scale. While these celebrations enabled nonvoters to participate intimately in the political process and helped dissenters forge effective means of protest, they had their limits as vehicles of democratization or modes of citizenship, Waldstreicher says. Exploring the interplay of region, race, class, and gender in the development of a national identity, he demonstrates that an acknowledgment of the diversity and conflict inherent in the process is crucial to any understanding of American politics and culture.
Critical Fictions
Author: Joseph FichtelbergPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820324340
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Past studies have discussed antebellum and early national sentimental literature by and about women as a retreat from, or criticism of, the burgeoning market. In this landmark study, Joseph Fichtelberg examines how this literature actually helped to bring market behaviors into maturity. Between 1780 and 1870, Americans endured no fewer than seventeen economic depressions. Each one generated sentimental outpourings in which women came to personify the travails of the marketplace. In the early national period, novels like Martha Meredith Read's Margaretta and Isaac Mitchell's The Asylum depicted resolute heroines who soothed national ills with virtuous vulnerability. While men often languished in such novels, women thrived. Antebellum fictions extend the argument: bankrupt husbands dissolved in sentimental despair, while their wives used a different sensibility to understand, and adapt to, the market itself. These fictions used women characters to think through the problems of economic crisis and growth--a process completed by the Civil War, when popular fictions began to depict merchants and clerks as feminine. To master the market was to act like a woman--virtuous, immune to commercial temptation, and thus pure. This notion, Fichtelberg argues, was crucial to the onset of liberalism and the emergence of the American middle class. In addition to his discussions of popular, though noncanonical, writers such as Read and Mitchell, Fichtelberg also covers well-known authors such as Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Olaudah Equiano, and Walt Whitman. He brings to bear neglected sources (including the ledgers of Ralph Waldo Emerson) and interweaves best-selling novels and pamphlets with political debates and contemporary economic analyses to create rich descriptions of the era. A crucial addition to American literary criticism on sentimental literature, Critical Fictions is a groundbreaking analysis of the relations between commercial and sentimental discourses in early American literature as well as a history of early American economics. It will appeal to specialists as well as to the general reader interested in how American culture has portrayed women in ways that express its deepest needs.
An Oration Delivered in Amesbury, July 4, 1817
Author: Samuel Barlow MeadPublisher:
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
ORATION DELIVERED JULY 4TH 181
Author: Hooper 1785-1825 CummingPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781373377661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
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ORATION DELIVERED JULY 4TH, 1817 (CLASSIC REPRINT).
Author: HOOPER. CUMMINGPublisher:
ISBN: 9781333166137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Oration Delivered July 4th, 1817
Author: Hooper CummingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
An Oration, Delivered at Worcester, July 4, 1817. The Forty-first Anniversary of the Independence of the United States ...
Author: Pliny MerrickPublisher:
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Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Author: Hooper Cumming