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The American Adam
Author | : R.W.B. Lewis |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2009-09-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780226219509 |
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Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"—dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De Crèvecoeur's "new man," the American, an innocent Adam in a bright new world dissociating himself from the historic past. Mr. Lewis reveals this vital preoccupation as a pervasive, transforming ingredient of the American mind, illuminating history and theology as well as art, shaping the consciousness of lesser thinkers as fully as it shaped the giants of the age. He traces the Adamic theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue he exposes their continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow.
The American Adam
Author | : R. W. B. Lewis |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226476812 |
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The first really original book on the classical period in American writing that has appeared for a long time.
Critical essays on the mith of the american Adam
Author | : María Eugenia & Díaz |
Publsiher | : Universidad de Salamanca |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 8478008519 |
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Revisions of the American Adam
Author | : Jonathan Mitchell |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2011-11-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781441169525 |
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The figure of the American Adam is a prevalent myth in US cultural history. Defined by R.W.B. Lewis in 1955 as "the hero of new adventure . . .an individual standing alone, self-reliant and self-propelling, ready to confront whatever awaited him with the aid of his own unique and inherent resources", the figure is discernable in the American renaissance writers and in the imagery of the frontiersman, cowboy, gangster as well as in the heroes of US action movies. Focusing on the American Adam as a paradigm of masculine identity formation, this monograph examines how this fantasy of an imaginary ideal identity has held an ideological sway over US identity in the main. Taking in a range of cultural texts, Jonathan Mitchell's study explores the complexities and contradictions of Adam's 'real' condition of existence to show how the paradigm influences both masculinity and subsequently hegemonic US identity as represented throughout twentieth-century US culture.
Americans in Paris A Literary Anthology
Author | : Adam Gopnik |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 2004-03-30 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : UOM:39015058733240 |
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Including stories, letters, memoirs, and journalism, "Americans in Paris" distills three centuries of vigorous, glittering, and powerfully emotional writing about the place that Henry James called "the most brilliant city in the world."
Adam Smith s America
Author | : Glory M. Liu |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2024-04-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780691240862 |
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The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free markets Originally published in 1776, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America’s founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national wealth, statecraft, and moral virtue. Today, Smith is one of the most influential icons of economic thought in America. Glory Liu traces how generations of Americans have read, reinterpreted, and weaponized Smith’s ideas, revealing how his popular image as a champion of American-style capitalism and free markets is a historical invention. Drawing on a trove of illuminating archival materials, Liu tells the story of how an unassuming Scottish philosopher captured the American imagination and played a leading role in shaping American economic and political ideas. She shows how Smith became known as the father of political economy in the nineteenth century and was firmly associated with free trade, and how, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the Chicago School of Economics transformed him into the preeminent theorist of self-interest and the miracle of free markets. Liu explores how a new generation of political theorists and public intellectuals has sought to recover Smith’s original intentions and restore his reputation as a moral philosopher. Charting the enduring fascination that this humble philosopher from Scotland has held for American readers over more than two centuries, Adam Smith’s America shows how Smith continues to be a vehicle for articulating perennial moral and political anxieties about modern capitalism.
The Rites of Assent
Author | : Sacvan Bercovitch |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317796183 |
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The Rites of Assent examines the cultural strategies through which "America" served as a vehicle simultaneously for diversity and cohesion, fusion and fragmentation. Taking an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach, The Rites of Assent traces the meanings and purposes of "America" back to the colonial typology of mission, and specifically (in chapters on Puritan rhetoric, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the movement from Revival to Revolution) to the legacy of early New England.
Revisions of the American Adam
Author | : Jonathan Mitchell |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2011-11-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781441156556 |
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The figure of the American Adam is a prevalent myth in US cultural history. Defined by R.W.B. Lewis in 1955 as "the hero of new adventure . . .an individual standing alone, self-reliant and self-propelling, ready to confront whatever awaited him with the aid of his own unique and inherent resources", the figure is discernable in the American renaissance writers and in the imagery of the frontiersman, cowboy, gangster as well as in the heroes of US action movies. Focusing on the American Adam as a paradigm of masculine identity formation, this monograph examines how this fantasy of an imaginary ideal identity has held an ideological sway over US identity in the main. Taking in a range of cultural texts, Jonathan Mitchell's study explores the complexities and contradictions of Adam's 'real' condition of existence to show how the paradigm influences both masculinity and subsequently hegemonic US identity as represented throughout twentieth-century US culture.