Young America : The Flowering of Democracy in New York City

Widmer, Edward L.

Oxford University Press Inc（2000/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780195140620
• DDC分類 973.5

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1999. Examines the meteoric rise and subsequent disintegration of a vigorous American literary-political movement in the 1840s.

Full Description

This study examines the meteoric rise and subsequent disintegration of a vigorous American literary-political movement in the 1840s. Calling itself 'Young America', the group found a mouthpiece in the Democratic Review, a literary magazine funded by the Democratic Party and edited by the brash and charismatic John O'Sullivan. The Review was not only a major voice in American politics, but also sponsored such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman and greatly inflenced Herman Melville, before it and Young America faded from the national consciousness after the Mexican-American War.

Contents

1: The Politics of Culture: O'Sullivan and the Democratic Review
2: Democracy and Literature
3: Young America in Literature: Duyckink, Melville, and the Mutual Admiration Society
4: Representation Without Taxation: Art for the People
5: The Young American Lexicon: Field and Codification
6: Young America Redux
7: Epilogue: Forever Young