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Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Young America Monthly Magazine
Author: Young America
Author: Edward L. WidmerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195140621
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This fascinating study examines the meteoric career of a vigorous intellectual movement rising out of the Age of Jackson. As Americans argued over their destiny in the decades preceding the Civil War, an outspoken new generation of "ultra-democratic" writers entered the fray, staking out positions on politics, literature, art, and any other territory they could annex. They called themselves Young America--and they proclaimed a "Manifest Destiny" to push back frontiers in every category of achievement. Their swagger found a natural home in New York City, already bursting at the seams and ready to take on the world. Young America's mouthpiece was the Democratic Review, a highly influential magazine funded by the Democratic Party and edited by the brash and charismatic John O'Sullivan. The Review offered a fresh voice in political journalism, and sponsored young writers like Hawthorne and Whitman early in their careers. Melville, too, was influenced by Young America, and provided a running commentary on its many excesses. Despite brilliant promise, the movement fell apart in the 1850s, leaving its original leaders troubled over the darker destiny they had ushered in. Their ambitious generation had failed to rewrite history as promised. Instead, their perpetual agitation helped set the stage for the Civil War. Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City is without question the most complete examination of this captivating and original movement. It also provides the first published biography of its leader, John O'Sullivan, one of America's great rhetoricians. Edward L. Widmer enriches his unique volume by offering a new theory of Manifest Destiny as part of a broader movement of intellectual expansion in nineteenth-century America.
Demorests' Monthly Magazine
Author: Young America
Author: Mark Power SmithPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813948541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
The Young Americans were a nationalist movement within the Democratic Party made up of writers and politicians associated with the New York periodical, the Democratic Review. In this revealing book, Mark Power Smith explores the ways in which–in dialogue with its critics–the movement forged contrasting visions of American nationalism in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Frustrated, fifty years after independence, by Britain’s political and cultural influence on the United States, the Young Americans drew on a wide variety of intellectual authorities—in the fields of literature, political science, phrenology and international law—to tie popular sovereignty for white men to the universalist idea of natural rights. The movement supported a noxious program of foreign interventionism, racial segregation, and cultural nationalism. What united these policies was a new view of national allegiance: one that saw democracy and free trade not as political privileges but as natural rights for white men. Despite its national reach, this view of the Union inadvertently turned Northern and Southern states against each other, helping to cultivate the conditions for the Civil War. In the end, the Young America movement was ultimately consumed by the sectional ideologies it had brought into being.
Demorest's Monthly Magazine
Author: Arthur's Home Magazine
Author: Harper's New Monthly Magazine
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Important American periodical dating back to 1850.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Author: Henry Mills AldenPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.
Young American's Magazine of Self-improvement
Author: George Washington LightPublisher:
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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