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Strange Nation - Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe (Hardcover)
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Strange Nation - Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe (Hardcover)
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After the War of 1812, Americans belatedly realized that they
lacked national identity. The subsequent campaign to articulate
nationality transformed every facet of culture from architecture to
painting, and in the realm of letters, literary jingoism embroiled
American authors in the heated politics of nationalism. The age
demanded stirring images of U.S. virtue, often achieved by
contriving myths and obscuring brutalities. Between these sanitized
narratives of the nation and U.S. social reality lay a grotesque
discontinuity: vehement conflicts over slavery, Indian removal,
immigration, and territorial expansion divided the country. Authors
such as Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine M.
Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lydia
Maria Child wrestled uneasily with the imperative to revise history
to produce national fable. Counter-narratives by fugitive slaves,
Native Americans, and defiant women subverted literary nationalism
by exposing the plight of the unfree and dispossessed. And with
them all, Edgar Allan Poe openly mocked literary nationalism and
deplored the celebration of "stupid" books appealing to provincial
self-congratulation. More than any other author, he personifies the
contrary, alien perspective that discerns the weird operations at
work behind the facade of American nation-building.
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