This book is a meditation on the theme of provincialism in American
literature. With careful attention to the historical context, it
identifies in the expressions of writers before the Civil War
certain qualities of self-doubt and defensiveness, certain
perceptions of displacement and decline, so profoundly
characteristic as to amount to a defining trait of American
literature. As a frontier nation, America lacked an organic culture
of its own and embarked on the impossibly difficult task of
creating a cultural life from imported forms and ideas. Albert von
Frank shows the history of this effort to be one of a desperate
conservatism struggling against the withering effects of time and
distance on cherished standards of the past.
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