Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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Page 72
... heroes , perhaps , but heroes are basically antagonistic to the stability of the family because they are hostile to the principle of hierarchy , without which no family could long survive . In The Pilot , a romance of the adventures of ...
... heroes , perhaps , but heroes are basically antagonistic to the stability of the family because they are hostile to the principle of hierarchy , without which no family could long survive . In The Pilot , a romance of the adventures of ...
Page 119
... heroes " were ploughing when the news of the massacre at Lexington arrived , and straightaway left their ploughs in the furrow , and repaired to the scene The most famous of these was Israel Putnam , of action . " 70 the hero of the ...
... heroes " were ploughing when the news of the massacre at Lexington arrived , and straightaway left their ploughs in the furrow , and repaired to the scene The most famous of these was Israel Putnam , of action . " 70 the hero of the ...
Page 234
... heroes are transformed from the fathers and allies of the sons to their brothers and enemies . Israel Potter is an ... hero , going where that hero cannot go . Like Birch and Molineux he is a nineteenth - century man , a shrewd Yankee of ...
... heroes are transformed from the fathers and allies of the sons to their brothers and enemies . Israel Potter is an ... hero , going where that hero cannot go . Like Birch and Molineux he is a nineteenth - century man , a shrewd Yankee of ...
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