Anglophilia : deference, devotion, and antebellum America / / Elisa Tamarkin

• Autore: Tamarkin Elisa
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (435 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.3
• Soggetto topico: Public opinion - United States - History - 19th century; Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century; Democracy - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century; Political culture - United States - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States Civilization 1783-1865; United States Civilization British influences; United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Influence; United States Relations Great Britain; Great Britain Relations United States; Great Britain Foreign public opinion, American
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-381) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Anglophilia 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Anglophilia
• ISBN: 1-281-96662-2; 9786611966621; 0-226-78943-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818987403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II