Strange Nation

Download or read book Strange Nation written by J. Gerald Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the War of 1812, Americans belatedly realized that they lacked national identity. The subsequent campaign to articulate nationality transformed every facet of culture from architecture to painting, and in the realm of letters, literary jingoism embroiled American authors in the heated politics of nationalism. The age demanded stirring images of U.S. virtue, often achieved by contriving myths and obscuring brutalities. Between these sanitized narratives of the nation and U.S. social reality lay a grotesque discontinuity: vehement conflicts over slavery, Indian removal, immigration, and territorial expansion divided the country. Authors such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine M. Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lydia Maria Child wrestled uneasily with the imperative to revise history to produce national fable. Counter-narratives by fugitive slaves, Native Americans, and defiant women subverted literary nationalism by exposing the plight of the unfree and dispossessed. And with them all, Edgar Allan Poe openly mocked literary nationalism and deplored the celebration of "stupid" books appealing to provincial self-congratulation. More than any other author, he personifies the contrary, alien perspective that discerns the weird operations at work behind the facade of American nation-building.

Download or read book Mourning the Nation to Come written by Jillian Sayre and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mourning the Nation to Come, Jillian J. Sayre offers a comparative study of early national literature and culture in the United States, Brazil, and Spanish America that theorizes New World nationalism as grounded in cultures of the dead and commemorative acts of mourning. Sayre argues that popular historical romances unified communities of creole readers by giving them lost love objects they could mourn together, allowing citizens of newly formed nations to feel as one. To trace the emergence of New World nationalism, Mourning the Nation to Come focuses on the genre of historical writings often gathered under the title of “Indianist romance,” which engage Native American history in order to translate Indigenous claims to the land as iterations of creole nativism. These historical narratives foresee present communities, anticipating the nation as the inevitable realization or fulfillment of a prophecy buried in the past. Sayre uncovers prophetic, nation-building narrative in texts from across the Americas, including the Book of Mormon and works of fiction, poetry, and oratory by José de Alencar, William Apess, Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, and José Joaquín de Olmedo, among others. By using cultural theory to interpret a transnational archive of literary works, Mourning the Nation to Come elucidates the structuring principles of New World nationalism located in prophetic narratives and acts of commemoration.

Download or read book A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament written by Alexander Cruden and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testament written by Alexander Cruden and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Concordance to the Old and New Testament ... By Alexander Cruden ... Edited by the Rev. C. S. Carey. [An Abridgment.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament: Or, A Dictionay and Alphabetical Index to the Bible written by Alexander Cruden and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: