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Voices of the Market Place - American Thought and Culture, 1830-1860 (Hardcover, New)
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Voices of the Market Place - American Thought and Culture, 1830-1860 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Twayne's American Thought & Culture S.
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In this comprehensive and insightful reinterpretation of antebellum
culture, Anne C. Rose analyzes the major changes in intellectual
life that occurred between 1830 and 1860 while exploring three sets
of concepts that provided common languages: Christianity,
democracy, and capitalism. Whereas many interpretations of American
culture in this period have emphasized a single theme - such as
revivalism, slavery, reform, Jacksonian democracy, or New England's
transcendentalist authors - or have been preoccupied with the
ensuing Civil War, Rose considers sharply divergent tendencies in
religion and politics and a wide range of reformers, authors, and
other public figures. She contends that although the key
characteristic of the society in which antebellum Americans
explored their ideas was openness, the freedom and creativity of
antebellum thought depended on conditions of cultural security. In
tracing the genesis of a "native culture", Rose surveys the art,
literature, and scholarship of the American Renaissance, citing as
particularly representative the genres of photography, the short
story, history, and the essay. Rose examines Walden, Uncle Tom's
Cabin, Moby-Dick, The Scarlet Letter, and other celebrated works
associated with the American Renaissance, but she also discusses
works by African Americans, Irish Americans, Native Americans, and
Jewish Americans that have seldom been seen in relation to the
era's more famous masterpieces. Rose emphasizes the construction of
cultural institutions and intellectual patterns that supported both
the mainstream American Victorian culture and the points of view
that contested conventional assumptions. Whether the language of
public discussion wasChristianity, democracy, or capitalism,
antebellum intellectual thought, Rose argues, developed through the
ferven and often tense interaction among advocates of diverse
ideals.
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