Coming to terms with democracy [[electronic resource] ] : Federalist intellectuals and the shaping of an American culture / / Marshall Foletta

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814260203321
• Autore: Foletta Marshall <1955->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Charlottesville, : University Press of Virginia, 2001
• ISBN: 1-283-60421-3; 9786613916662; 0-8139-2169-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.5
• Soggetti: Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century; Political culture - United States - History - 19th century; Intellectuals - Political activity - New England - History - 19th century; United States Politics and government 1789-1815; United States Politics and government 1815-1861; United States Intellectual life 19th century; New England Intellectual life 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-289) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1. 1815 -- Chapter 2. Fathers -- Chapter 3. Sons -- Chapter 4. Literature: The Prospects -- Chapter 5. Literature: The Problems -- Chapter 6. Institutions -- Chapter 7. History -- Chapter 8. Legacy.
• Sommario/riassunto: "In Coming to Terms with Democracy, Marshall Foletta contends that by callling for a new American literature in their journal, the second-generation Federalists helped American readers break free from imported neoclassical standards, thus paving the way for the American Renaissance."--BOOK JACKET.; "Raised as Federalists and encouraged to believe that they had special responsibilities as "the wise and the good," they came of age within a cultural and political climate that no longer deferred to men of their education and background. But unlike their fathers, who retreated in disgust before the emerging forces of democracy, these young Federalist intellectuals tried to adapt their parents' ideology to the new political and social realities and preserve for themselves a place as the ; first public intellectuals in America.".; "William Tudor, Willard Phillips, and Richard Henry Dana were not their fathers' Federalists. When these young New England intellectuals and their contemporaries attempted to carve out a place for themselves in the rapidly changing and increasingly unfriendly culture of the early nineteenth century, the key to their efforts was the founding, in 1815, of the North American Review.".