LEADER 03176nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910451623103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-58729-593-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000469961 035 $a(EBL)843113 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000142210 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11160984 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000142210 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10096197 035 $a(PQKB)10492733 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843113 035 $a(OCoLC)85811940 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12537 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843113 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354644 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000469961 100 $a20040831d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aE pluribus unum$b[electronic resource] $enineteenth-century American literature & the Constitutional paradox /$fW.C. Harris 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (329 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87745-934-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-307) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $a""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 m 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCultural pluralism in literature 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aGroup identity in literature 606 $aIndividualism in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCultural pluralism in literature. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aGroup identity in literature. 615 0$aIndividualism in literature. 676 $a810.9/358/097309034 700 $aHarris$b W. C$g(William Conley)$0884098 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451623103321 996 $aE pluribus unum$91974341 997 $aUNINA