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