Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... believed that it could and would be stopped without destroying slavery . For a time , indeed , it seemed as though the war would end with the Union restored and slavery intact , a result that President Lincoln would have accepted . His ...
... believed that it could and would be stopped without destroying slavery . For a time , indeed , it seemed as though the war would end with the Union restored and slavery intact , a result that President Lincoln would have accepted . His ...
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... believed that " revolutions are not made ; they come . A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak . It comes 54 Its foundations are laid far back . " 1 out of the past . How far back ? " All past events have been preparing for it ...
... believed that " revolutions are not made ; they come . A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak . It comes 54 Its foundations are laid far back . " 1 out of the past . How far back ? " All past events have been preparing for it ...
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... believed the fathers had shunted aside . But for moderate romantics , like Hawthorne , who were neither Transcendentalists nor abolitionists , what was the available course ? When the imagination wanted to get rid of the fathers but was ...
... believed the fathers had shunted aside . But for moderate romantics , like Hawthorne , who were neither Transcendentalists nor abolitionists , what was the available course ? When the imagination wanted to get rid of the fathers but was ...
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