Father Past and Child Nation: The Romantic Imagination and the Origins of the American Civil War |
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... sons used it in such remarks , is rarely heard anymore and the task of recapturing the nineteenth - century meaning of the term is complicated by the fact that the sons ' use of it was neither precise nor consistent . meanings are ...
... sons used it in such remarks , is rarely heard anymore and the task of recapturing the nineteenth - century meaning of the term is complicated by the fact that the sons ' use of it was neither precise nor consistent . meanings are ...
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... sons opened the door to mediocrity , there was all the more pressure to seek romantic fulfillment in the imagination , where the sons could at least express their deepest desires even if they could not fulfill them . Lincoln's warning ...
... sons opened the door to mediocrity , there was all the more pressure to seek romantic fulfillment in the imagination , where the sons could at least express their deepest desires even if they could not fulfill them . Lincoln's warning ...
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... sons wor- shipped the fathers more than Tucker did . But what if the fathers were removed ? What if what was imagined could also come true ? Moreover , what if the imaginative impulses of the sons could be linked to issues more dramatic ...
... sons wor- shipped the fathers more than Tucker did . But what if the fathers were removed ? What if what was imagined could also come true ? Moreover , what if the imaginative impulses of the sons could be linked to issues more dramatic ...
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