Washington Irving's Critique of American Culture - Sketching a Vision of World Citizenship (Hardcover)

Washington Irving's Critique of American Culture challenges long-standing views of Washington Irving. He has been portrayed as writing in the 18th century style of Addison and Goldsmith, without have much substance of his own. Irving has also been accused of being insufficiently American, and adrift in an identity crisis. The author argues that Irving addressed the American cultural context very extensively, a writer of substance who articulated an ethic of world citizenship that was found in the philosophy of ancient Greek Cynics and Stoics. This ethic was united with a love of picturesque travel, which emphasized variety and texture in experience, resulting in an extraordinary affirmation of the value of cultural diversity in the new Republic. Irving was, in fact, a liminal figure straddling Romantic and neoclassical modes of writing and acting. The author draws attention to Irving's success as a writer in the pictorial mode. Irving also expressed a critique of cultural loss and environmental destruction like that articulated by the artist Thomas Cole. The work embraces an interdisciplinary approach, where insights from philosophy, religion, art history, and social history shed light on an underestimated writer.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2021
Authors:	J. Woodrow Mccree
Dimensions:	228 x 162 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	218
ISBN-13:	978-1-79361-961-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Promotions
LSN:	1-79361-961-1
Barcode:	9781793619617

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