Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... nation profoundly affected the consciousness of the people within it . " A people , like an individual , must needs pass through a season of youth in its progressive develop- ment , and ... during this season the individual partakes of ...
... nation profoundly affected the consciousness of the people within it . " A people , like an individual , must needs pass through a season of youth in its progressive develop- ment , and ... during this season the individual partakes of ...
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... nation , they lost no time creating a mythology where none had existed before , a mytho- logy that verged on the phantasmagoric , not to say the sexual . The nation and the sons who inhabited it were the children of the union between ...
... nation , they lost no time creating a mythology where none had existed before , a mytho- logy that verged on the phantasmagoric , not to say the sexual . The nation and the sons who inhabited it were the children of the union between ...
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... nation's youth . When David Hatch Barlow in 1851 called for a rich national literature despite the fact that the nation was still a child , he couched his demand in personal terms : " Most emphatically is it true , that ' the child is ...
... nation's youth . When David Hatch Barlow in 1851 called for a rich national literature despite the fact that the nation was still a child , he couched his demand in personal terms : " Most emphatically is it true , that ' the child is ...
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