04157nam 2200757 a 450 991081898740332120200520144314.01-281-96662-297866119666210-226-78943-810.7208/9780226789439(CKB)1000000000578617(EBL)432303(OCoLC)309871240(SSID)ssj0000103587(PQKBManifestationID)11108643(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000103587(PQKBWorkID)10070359(PQKB)11199695(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117456(MiAaPQ)EBC432303(DE-B1597)525019(OCoLC)1135584544(DE-B1597)9780226789439(Au-PeEL)EBL432303(CaPaEBR)ebr10266085(CaONFJC)MIL196662(EXLCZ)99100000000057861720070525d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAnglophilia deference, devotion, and antebellum America /Elisa Tamarkin1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20081 online resource (435 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-78944-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-381) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter One. Monarch-Love; or, How the Prince of Wales Saved the Union -- Chapter Two. Imperial Nostalgia -- Chapter Three. Freedom and Deference -- Chapter Four. The Anglophile Academy -- Notes -- IndexAnglophilia charts the phenomenon of the love of Britain that emerged after the Revolution and remains in the character of U.S. society and class, the style of academic life, and the idea of American intellectualism. But as Tamarkin shows, this Anglophilia was more than just an elite nostalgia; it was popular devotion that made reverence for British tradition instrumental to the psychological innovations of democracy. Anglophilia spoke to fantasies of cultural belonging, polite sociability, and, finally, deference itself as an affective practice within egalitarian politics. Tamarkin traces the wide-ranging effects of anglophilia on American literature, art and intellectual life in the early nineteenth century, as well as its influence in arguments against slavery, in the politics of Union, and in the dialectics of liberty and loyalty before the civil war. By working beyond narratives of British influence, Tamarkin highlights a more intricate culture of American response, one that included Whig elites, college students, radical democrats, urban immigrants, and African Americans. Ultimately, Anglophila argues that that the love of Britain was not simply a fetish or form of shame-a release from the burdens of American culture-but an anachronistic structure of attachement in which U.S. Identity was lived in other languages of national expression. Public opinionUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPopular cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryDemocracySocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPolitical cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesCivilization1783-1865United StatesCivilizationBritish influencesUnited StatesHistoryRevolution, 1775-1783InfluenceUnited StatesRelationsGreat BritainGreat BritainRelationsUnited StatesGreat BritainForeign public opinion, AmericanPublic opinionHistoryPopular cultureHistoryDemocracySocial aspectsHistoryPolitical cultureHistory973.3Tamarkin Elisa1721342MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818987403321Anglophilia4120860UNINA