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Author | : Finn Pollard |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009-01-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135892652 |
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"What then is the American, this new man?" This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each of whom confronted a crucial moment in the evolution of the new nation (from Crevecoeur and the Revolution, through Washington Irving and Jeffersonian Democracy, to James Fenimore Cooper and the Era of Good Feelings). At the centre of these confrontations was a division between those who claimed national perfection had been obtained, and those who, while desperately wanting to believe this, perceived all too clearly that that perfection had not yet come. Rediscovering this neglected literary debate, The Literary Quest for an American National Character illuminates afresh the traumatic birth and development of the new American nation.
Author | : Finn Pollard |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 0415963737 |
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The sections of this volume are entitled: 'A Farmer Asks a Question and a Scientist Creates a Model', 'Hugh Henry Brackenridge and the Dogma of Balance', 'The Defining Moment: Washington Irving and a History of New York', 'The Fragments: Minor Writers (c1810-1824)', and 'The Illusion Ascendant'.
Author | : Alistair Finn Pollard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alistair Finn Pollard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Cecil Foster Tate |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mary Humphrey |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2005-09-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0897899539 |
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The author has developed a manual for the easy implementation of the character education program she created. As an added bonus, the book includes an explanation of the action research completed with the original implementation of this program. It includes the necessary lesson plans, eight original hero tales, annotated bibliographies of other applicable tales, assessment pieces, reproducible forms and instructions for implementing the program and the action research piece. It also includes a sampling of the results of her research to date, original student reflections, texts of interviews and analysis. A foreword by well-known young adult fantasy author T. A. Barron, author of the popular Merlin series, is featured.
Author | : Arthur James Wells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1922 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Bibliography, National |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Colin Woodard |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2016-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0698181719 |
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The author of American Nations examines the history of and solutions to the key American question: how best to reconcile individual liberty with the maintenance of a free society The struggle between individual rights and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of nearly every major disagreement in our history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention and in the run up to the Civil War to the fights surrounding the agendas of the Federalists, the Progressives, the New Dealers, the civil rights movement, and the Tea Party. In American Character, Colin Woodard traces these two key strands in American politics through the four centuries of the nation’s existence, from the first colonies through the Gilded Age, Great Depression and the present day, and he explores how different regions of the country have successfully or disastrously accommodated them. The independent streak found its most pernicious form in the antebellum South but was balanced in the Gilded Age by communitarian reform efforts; the New Deal was an example of a successful coalition between communitarian-minded Eastern elites and Southerners. Woodard argues that maintaining a liberal democracy, a society where mass human freedom is possible, requires finding a balance between protecting individual liberty and nurturing a free society. Going to either libertarian or collectivist extremes results in tyranny. But where does the “sweet spot” lie in the United States, a federation of disparate regional cultures that have always strongly disagreed on these issues? Woodard leads readers on a riveting and revealing journey through four centuries of struggle, experimentation, successes and failures to provide an answer. His historically informed and pragmatic suggestions on how to achieve this balance and break the nation’s political deadlock will be of interest to anyone who cares about the current American predicament—political, ideological, and sociological.
Author | : Keiko Nitta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1999 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1614 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
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