Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... fathers did not take into sufficient account the role of the times in creating character . A man's char- acter was ... fathers was to reform them in the image of the fathers without letting them be like the fathers , keeping them , as it ...
... fathers did not take into sufficient account the role of the times in creating character . A man's char- acter was ... fathers was to reform them in the image of the fathers without letting them be like the fathers , keeping them , as it ...
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... fathers , an oppressive legacy at odds with the imaginative impulses of those who thought of themselves as young like the nation , placed the sons in a psychic bind that could be resolved only through fratricide . The sons ' sense of ...
... fathers , an oppressive legacy at odds with the imaginative impulses of those who thought of themselves as young like the nation , placed the sons in a psychic bind that could be resolved only through fratricide . The sons ' sense of ...
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... fathers ' work were attacking the fathers themselves . Though the attempt on the fathers ' work was ultimately unsuccessful , the Civil War was indeed an act of parricide . For nearly forty years the Abraham sons were told that they ...
... fathers ' work were attacking the fathers themselves . Though the attempt on the fathers ' work was ultimately unsuccessful , the Civil War was indeed an act of parricide . For nearly forty years the Abraham sons were told that they ...
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