03176nam 2200649 a 450 991045162310332120200520144314.01-58729-593-8(CKB)1000000000469961(EBL)843113(SSID)ssj0000142210(PQKBManifestationID)11160984(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000142210(PQKBWorkID)10096197(PQKB)10492733(MiAaPQ)EBC843113(OCoLC)85811940(MdBmJHUP)muse12537(Au-PeEL)EBL843113(CaPaEBR)ebr10354644(EXLCZ)99100000000046996120040831d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrE pluribus unum[electronic resource] nineteenth-century American literature & the Constitutional paradox /W.C. HarrisIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20051 online resource (329 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-934-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-307) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; "Brotherhood among the Atoms" Edgar Allan Poe and the Poetics of Constitution; "A Religion Which Is No Religion" Walt Whitman and the Writing of a New American Bible; "But Aren't It All a Sham?" Herman Melville and the Critique of Unity; "Necessarily Short of Sight" William James and the Dilemma of Variety; Afterword; Notes; Works Cited; Index""Out of many, one."" But how do the many become one without sacrificing difference or autonomy? This problem was critical to both identity formation and state formation in late 18th- and 19th-century America. The premise of this book is that American writers of the time came to view the resolution of this central philosophical problem as no longer the exclusive province of legislative or judicial documents but capable of being addressed by literary texts as well. The project of E Pluribus Unum is twofold. Its first and underlying concern is the general philosophic problem of the one and the mAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismCultural pluralism in literaturePolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryGroup identity in literatureIndividualism in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Cultural pluralism in literature.Politics and literatureHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryGroup identity in literature.Individualism in literature.810.9/358/097309034Harris W. C(William Conley)884098MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451623103321E pluribus unum1974341UNINA