Tamarkin, Elisa.
Anglophilia : Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America. - 1 online resource (435 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Paying Respects -- 1 Monarch-Love -- or, How the Prince of Wales Saved the Union -- "E Pluribus Unum, or, in English, Welcome to the Prince" -- Anachronism and Style (More Twaddle about the Queen) -- Sovereigns, Substitutes, and Emptiness -- The Renewal and Uses of Filial Piety -- Hawthorne's Mystic Threads -- 2 Imperial Nostalgia: American Elegies for British Empire -- The Dullness of Patriotism -- A Case of Surrender -- Delicacies of War -- The Elegiac Return to Dependence -- Empire of Beauty -- Loyal Archives and the Reluctance to Rebel -- Women Folks Are Natural Tories: Love in the Age of Revolution -- 3 Freedom and Deference: Society, Antislavery, and BlackIntellectualism -- The Importance of Being English -- Caste and Conduct -- The Chivalry of Antislavery -- The Sociability of Antislavery (and Diversions of Reform) -- Black Anglo-Saxonism -- 4 The Anglophile Academy -- The Social Life of College -- The Sincerity of Dilettantes -- The English Accent -- Pomp and Circumstance -- or, How to Be a Chum -- Coda: Education and Nostalgia -- Notes -- Index.
Anglophilia charts the phenomenon of the love of Britain that emerged after the Revolution and remains in the character of U.S. society and class, the style of academic life, and the idea of American intellectualism. But as Tamarkin shows, this Anglophilia was more than just an elite nostalgia; it was popular devotion that made reverence for British tradition instrumental to the psychological innovations of democracy. Anglophilia spoke to fantasies of cultural belonging, polite sociability, and, finally, deference itself as an affective practice within egalitarian politics. Tamarkin traces the wide-ranging effects of anglophilia on American literature, art and intellectual life in the early nineteenth century, as well as its influence in arguments against slavery, in the politics of Union, and in the dialectics of liberty and loyalty before the civil war. By working beyond narratives of British influence, Tamarkin highlights a more intricate culture of American response, one that included Whig elites, college students, radical democrats, urban immigrants, and African Americans. Ultimately, Anglophila argues that that the love of Britain was not simply a fetish or form of shame-a release from the burdens of American culture-but an anachronistic structure of attachement in which U.S. Identity was lived in other languages of national expression.
9780226789439
Democracy -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865.
United States -- Civilization -- British influences.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence.
Electronic books.
E165
973.3
Anglophilia : Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America. - 1 online resource (435 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Paying Respects -- 1 Monarch-Love -- or, How the Prince of Wales Saved the Union -- "E Pluribus Unum, or, in English, Welcome to the Prince" -- Anachronism and Style (More Twaddle about the Queen) -- Sovereigns, Substitutes, and Emptiness -- The Renewal and Uses of Filial Piety -- Hawthorne's Mystic Threads -- 2 Imperial Nostalgia: American Elegies for British Empire -- The Dullness of Patriotism -- A Case of Surrender -- Delicacies of War -- The Elegiac Return to Dependence -- Empire of Beauty -- Loyal Archives and the Reluctance to Rebel -- Women Folks Are Natural Tories: Love in the Age of Revolution -- 3 Freedom and Deference: Society, Antislavery, and BlackIntellectualism -- The Importance of Being English -- Caste and Conduct -- The Chivalry of Antislavery -- The Sociability of Antislavery (and Diversions of Reform) -- Black Anglo-Saxonism -- 4 The Anglophile Academy -- The Social Life of College -- The Sincerity of Dilettantes -- The English Accent -- Pomp and Circumstance -- or, How to Be a Chum -- Coda: Education and Nostalgia -- Notes -- Index.
Anglophilia charts the phenomenon of the love of Britain that emerged after the Revolution and remains in the character of U.S. society and class, the style of academic life, and the idea of American intellectualism. But as Tamarkin shows, this Anglophilia was more than just an elite nostalgia; it was popular devotion that made reverence for British tradition instrumental to the psychological innovations of democracy. Anglophilia spoke to fantasies of cultural belonging, polite sociability, and, finally, deference itself as an affective practice within egalitarian politics. Tamarkin traces the wide-ranging effects of anglophilia on American literature, art and intellectual life in the early nineteenth century, as well as its influence in arguments against slavery, in the politics of Union, and in the dialectics of liberty and loyalty before the civil war. By working beyond narratives of British influence, Tamarkin highlights a more intricate culture of American response, one that included Whig elites, college students, radical democrats, urban immigrants, and African Americans. Ultimately, Anglophila argues that that the love of Britain was not simply a fetish or form of shame-a release from the burdens of American culture-but an anachronistic structure of attachement in which U.S. Identity was lived in other languages of national expression.
9780226789439
Democracy -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865.
United States -- Civilization -- British influences.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence.
Electronic books.
E165
973.3