Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... cultural shift that was occurring in America even as Cooper wrote . The works of the great European romantics were pouring into America . What would be their effect on the dominant Enlightenment culture of the fathers ? Would the ...
... cultural shift that was occurring in America even as Cooper wrote . The works of the great European romantics were pouring into America . What would be their effect on the dominant Enlightenment culture of the fathers ? Would the ...
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... culture , but choosing and inventing their own culture through the choosing and inventing of their own parents . As we shall see , this imaginative fusion was not accomplished without great psychic and poli- tical cost to those who ...
... culture , but choosing and inventing their own culture through the choosing and inventing of their own parents . As we shall see , this imaginative fusion was not accomplished without great psychic and poli- tical cost to those who ...
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... culture of Nature any more than any child ever had to choose between his parents . As Bronson Alcott remarked , they ... cultures , they were confronted with certain conundrums that demanded solutions . How , for example , did one ...
... culture of Nature any more than any child ever had to choose between his parents . As Bronson Alcott remarked , they ... cultures , they were confronted with certain conundrums that demanded solutions . How , for example , did one ...
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