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Constituting «Americanness»
A History of the Concept and Its Representations in Antebellum American Literature
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Iulian Cananau
This work in cultural history and literary criticism suggests a fresh and fruitful approach to the old notion of
Americanness. Following Reinhart Koselleck’s
Begriffsgeschichte, the author proposes that
Americanness is not an ordinary word, but a concept with a historically specific semantic field. In the three decades before the Civil War,
Americanness was constituted at the intersection of several concepts, in different stages of their respective histories; among these, nation, representation, individualism, sympathy, race, and womanhood. By tracing the representations of these concepts in literary texts of the antebellum era and investigating their overlapping with the rhetoric of national identification, this study uncovers some of the meaning of
Americanness in that period.
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- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2015. IX, 280 pp.
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1.1 “Americanness” in the English Corpus
- 1.2 From Nationalist Beginnings to Cold War Consensus
- 1.3 The Critique of Americanness
- 2.1 Jewish American Perspectives: From Jewishness to Americanness and Back
- 2.2 African American Perspectives: Blackness at the Heart of Americanness
- 2.3 Asian American Perspectives: The Inevitability of Descent
- 3.1 Sacvan Bercovitch’s Theory of the American Ideology
- 3.2 Advantages and Limitations of Bercovitch’s Approach for Theorizing the Americanness of Nineteenth Century American Literature
- 3.3 Reinhart Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte and the Conceptualization of Americanness
- 4.1 Americanism or Americanness? The Concepts and Their Histories
- 4.2 Americanness and National Identity at the Time of the American Renaissance. Case Study: Cooper’s The American Democrat
- 5.1 Constituting Americanness: the Self/Nation Relation in Emerson’s Essays
- 5.2 Walden and Thoreau’s Reinvention of America
- 5.3 Figures of National Identity in Moby-Dick
- 6.1 Emerson’s Representative Man and the National Foundations of Wonder
- 6.2 Douglass’s Civic Ideal of the Representative American
- 6.3 Whitman’s Representative Poetic Persona
- 7.1 Individualism or Self-Reliance?
- 7.2 Thoreau’s Self-Reliant Individual and the Ethics of Citizenship
- 8.1 The American Context. The Two Sides of Sympathy in Emerson’s Essays
- 8.2 The Scarlet Letter and the Redemptive Sympathy of the Public
- 8.3 The Function of Sympathy and Sentimentalism in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- 9.1 Emerson’s Contribution to Anti-Slavery Writing
- 9.2 Race in Moby Dick and “Benito Cereno”
- 9.3 Douglass and “the Wicked Prejudice”
- 10.1 Conceptualizing Antebellum Womanhood
- 10.2 The Feminine Ideal as Patriotic Muse and Minerva in Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century
- 10.3 Harriet Jacobs’s Construction of Womanhood
- 11.1 Poe and the Modern Man’s Displacement and Alienation
- 11.2 Thoreau’s Walden and the Market Revolution
- 11.3 Melville’s “Bartleby” and the Midcentury Business Ethos
- Afterword
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1.1 “Americanness” in the English Corpus
- 1.2 From Nationalist Beginnings to Cold War Consensus
- 1.3 The Critique of Americanness
- 2.1 Jewish American Perspectives: From Jewishness to Americanness and Back
- 2.2 African American Perspectives: Blackness at the Heart of Americanness
- 2.3 Asian American Perspectives: The Inevitability of Descent
- 3.1 Sacvan Bercovitch’s Theory of the American Ideology
- 3.2 Advantages and Limitations of Bercovitch’s Approach for Theorizing the Americanness of Nineteenth Century American Literature
- 3.3 Reinhart Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte and the Conceptualization of Americanness
- 4.1 Americanism or Americanness? The Concepts and Their Histories
- 4.2 Americanness and National Identity at the Time of the American Renaissance. Case Study: Cooper’s The American Democrat
- 5.1 Constituting Americanness: the Self/Nation Relation in Emerson’s Essays
- 5.2 Walden and Thoreau’s Reinvention of America
- 5.3 Figures of National Identity in Moby-Dick
- 6.1 Emerson’s Representative Man and the National Foundations of Wonder
- 6.2 Douglass’s Civic Ideal of the Representative American
- 6.3 Whitman’s Representative Poetic Persona
- 7.1 Individualism or Self-Reliance?
- 7.2 Thoreau’s Self-Reliant Individual and the Ethics of Citizenship
- 8.1 The American Context. The Two Sides of Sympathy in Emerson’s Essays
- 8.2 The Scarlet Letter and the Redemptive Sympathy of the Public
- 8.3 The Function of Sympathy and Sentimentalism in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- 9.1 Emerson’s Contribution to Anti-Slavery Writing
- 9.2 Race in Moby Dick and “Benito Cereno”
- 9.3 Douglass and “the Wicked Prejudice”
- 10.1 Conceptualizing Antebellum Womanhood
- 10.2 The Feminine Ideal as Patriotic Muse and Minerva in Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century
- 10.3 Harriet Jacobs’s Construction of Womanhood
- 11.1 Poe and the Modern Man’s Displacement and Alienation
- 11.2 Thoreau’s Walden and the Market Revolution
- 11.3 Melville’s “Bartleby” and the Midcentury Business Ethos
- Afterword
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1.1 “Americanness” in the English Corpus
- 1.2 From Nationalist Beginnings to Cold War Consensus
- 1.3 The Critique of Americanness
- 2.1 Jewish American Perspectives: From Jewishness to Americanness and Back
- 2.2 African American Perspectives: Blackness at the Heart of Americanness
- 2.3 Asian American Perspectives: The Inevitability of Descent
- 3.1 Sacvan Bercovitch’s Theory of the American Ideology
- 3.2 Advantages and Limitations of Bercovitch’s Approach for Theorizing the Americanness of Nineteenth Century American Literature
- 3.3 Reinhart Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte and the Conceptualization of Americanness
- 4.1 Americanism or Americanness? The Concepts and Their Histories
- 4.2 Americanness and National Identity at the Time of the American Renaissance. Case Study: Cooper’s The American Democrat
- 5.1 Constituting Americanness: the Self/Nation Relation in Emerson’s Essays
- 5.2 Walden and Thoreau’s Reinvention of America
- 5.3 Figures of National Identity in Moby-Dick
- 6.1 Emerson’s Representative Man and the National Foundations of Wonder
- 6.2 Douglass’s Civic Ideal of the Representative American
- 6.3 Whitman’s Representative Poetic Persona
- 7.1 Individualism or Self-Reliance?
- 7.2 Thoreau’s Self-Reliant Individual and the Ethics of Citizenship
- 8.1 The American Context. The Two Sides of Sympathy in Emerson’s Essays
- 8.2 The Scarlet Letter and the Redemptive Sympathy of the Public
- 8.3 The Function of Sympathy and Sentimentalism in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- 9.1 Emerson’s Contribution to Anti-Slavery Writing
- 9.2 Race in Moby Dick and “Benito Cereno”
- 9.3 Douglass and “the Wicked Prejudice”
- 10.1 Conceptualizing Antebellum Womanhood
- 10.2 The Feminine Ideal as Patriotic Muse and Minerva in Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century
- 10.3 Harriet Jacobs’s Construction of Womanhood
- 11.1 Poe and the Modern Man’s Displacement and Alienation
- 11.2 Thoreau’s Walden and the Market Revolution
- 11.3 Melville’s “Bartleby” and the Midcentury Business Ethos
- Afterword
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1.1 “Americanness” in the English Corpus
- 1.2 From Nationalist Beginnings to Cold War Consensus
- 1.3 The Critique of Americanness
- 2.1 Jewish American Perspectives: From Jewishness to Americanness and Back
- 2.2 African American Perspectives: Blackness at the Heart of Americanness
- 2.3 Asian American Perspectives: The Inevitability of Descent
- 3.1 Sacvan Bercovitch’s Theory of the American Ideology
- 3.2 Advantages and Limitations of Bercovitch’s Approach for Theorizing the Americanness of Nineteenth Century American Literature
- 3.3 Reinhart Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte and the Conceptualization of Americanness
- 4.1 Americanism or Americanness? The Concepts and Their Histories
- 4.2 Americanness and National Identity at the Time of the American Renaissance. Case Study: Cooper’s The American Democrat
- 5.1 Constituting Americanness: the Self/Nation Relation in Emerson’s Essays
- 5.2 Walden and Thoreau’s Reinvention of America
- 5.3 Figures of National Identity in Moby-Dick
- 6.1 Emerson’s Representative Man and the National Foundations of Wonder
- 6.2 Douglass’s Civic Ideal of the Representative American
- 6.3 Whitman’s Representative Poetic Persona
- 7.1 Individualism or Self-Reliance?
- 7.2 Thoreau’s Self-Reliant Individual and the Ethics of Citizenship
- 8.1 The American Context. The Two Sides of Sympathy in Emerson’s Essays
- 8.2 The Scarlet Letter and the Redemptive Sympathy of the Public
- 8.3 The Function of Sympathy and Sentimentalism in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- 9.1 Emerson’s Contribution to Anti-Slavery Writing
- 9.2 Race in Moby Dick and “Benito Cereno”
- 9.3 Douglass and “the Wicked Prejudice”
- 10.1 Conceptualizing Antebellum Womanhood
- 10.2 The Feminine Ideal as Patriotic Muse and Minerva in Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century
- 10.3 Harriet Jacobs’s Construction of Womanhood
- 11.1 Poe and the Modern Man’s Displacement and Alienation
- 11.2 Thoreau’s Walden and the Market Revolution
- 11.3 Melville’s “Bartleby” and the Midcentury Business Ethos
- Afterword
- Works Cited
- Index