Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... childhood , and of their intimate relation- ship to each other . Why " child " ? Why was childhood so attractive ? First of all , childhood was identified with innocence . " What is so beautiful as childhood ? " asked a writer in ...
... childhood , and of their intimate relation- ship to each other . Why " child " ? Why was childhood so attractive ? First of all , childhood was identified with innocence . " What is so beautiful as childhood ? " asked a writer in ...
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... childhood was that it was not accompanied by a similiar sentimentalizing of the nineteenth - century child himself . The force at work was nostalgia , and so the focus of attention was on the writer's own childhood rather than on the ...
... childhood was that it was not accompanied by a similiar sentimentalizing of the nineteenth - century child himself . The force at work was nostalgia , and so the focus of attention was on the writer's own childhood rather than on the ...
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... childhood experiences ( the cherry tree episode , for example ) was not without point . Childhood was the time when these virtues were both learned and practiced . Childhood was the end point of the conservative program of cultural ...
... childhood experiences ( the cherry tree episode , for example ) was not without point . Childhood was the time when these virtues were both learned and practiced . Childhood was the end point of the conservative program of cultural ...
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