Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... past was funda- mentally new to Americans wrenched from the golden age and , as we shall see , the idea of " the past " turned out to be one of the great conundrums of American romantic thought . Cooper's romantic family , existing in ...
... past was funda- mentally new to Americans wrenched from the golden age and , as we shall see , the idea of " the past " turned out to be one of the great conundrums of American romantic thought . Cooper's romantic family , existing in ...
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... past .... such grand though shadowy anticipations are for ever vaguely present before our minds , that the things of the past have but little interest or value for us . " 5 But if Americans were either free of or hostile toward the past ...
... past .... such grand though shadowy anticipations are for ever vaguely present before our minds , that the things of the past have but little interest or value for us . " 5 But if Americans were either free of or hostile toward the past ...
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... past and present , and hence it was only a matter of time before the past came to be seen not only as a building , but as a person -- and not just the unnamed giant or grandfather that Holgrave complained about , but the 601bid . , p ...
... past and present , and hence it was only a matter of time before the past came to be seen not only as a building , but as a person -- and not just the unnamed giant or grandfather that Holgrave complained about , but the 601bid . , p ...
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