Anglophilia: deference, devotion, and antebellum America
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1. Verfasser: Tamarkin, Elisa (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-381) and index
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface: Paying Respects; 1 Monarch-Love; or, How the Prince of Wales Saved the Union; 2 Imperial Nostalgia: American Elegies for British Empire; 3 Freedom and Deference: Society, Antislavery, and BlackIntellectualism; 4 The Anglophile Academy; Notes; Index
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
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ISBN:0226789438
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