Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... problem of the inevitability of the Civil War , of course , is in its essence a problem devoid of meaning . Time after time he makes trenchant criticism of the revi- sionists , only to carry his criticisms too far . He is correct , for ...
... problem of the inevitability of the Civil War , of course , is in its essence a problem devoid of meaning . Time after time he makes trenchant criticism of the revi- sionists , only to carry his criticisms too far . He is correct , for ...
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... problem of the greatest magnitude , and that it was an intractable problem , but that it need not have led to civil war between sections . How could the conflict have been averted ? To enter into the province of conjecture and suggest ...
... problem of the greatest magnitude , and that it was an intractable problem , but that it need not have led to civil war between sections . How could the conflict have been averted ? To enter into the province of conjecture and suggest ...
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... problem of slavery , a problem which they believed the fathers had shunted aside . But for moderate romantics , like Hawthorne , who were neither Transcendentalists nor abolitionists , what was the available course ? When the ...
... problem of slavery , a problem which they believed the fathers had shunted aside . But for moderate romantics , like Hawthorne , who were neither Transcendentalists nor abolitionists , what was the available course ? When the ...
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