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Present Uncertainty and Looking to the Past: The Ambiguous Literary Nationalism of Putnam’s Monthly
2023
Putnam’s Monthly (1853-1857) was one of the best literary and general interest magazines in antebellum America. Besides its high quality, what made the New York-based magazine stand out was its commitment to publishing American writers and focusing on American themes at a time when, with no reliable international copyright protection in place, many periodicals in the United States were in the habit of reprinting the works of foreign (primarily British) authors, sometimes without payment. However, despite its optimistic literary nationalism, Putnam’s Monthly expressed uncertainty about the quality of contemporary American literature and, indeed, about the capacity of American society to enco…
“‘A house divided against itself cannot stand': Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Courtship of Miles Standish and American National Unity in 1858.”
2007
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“Anatomizing America: Science and the Rhetoric of Literary Nationalism in theNineteenth Century”
1997
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“The Reassurance—and the Horror—of Fratricide: Legitimacy and the Redefinition of National Unity in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
2010
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Langage autoritaire et résistance dans la littérature allemande consacrée aux Provinces de l'est allemandes
2011
International audience; La perte des Provinces de l'est allemandes en 1945 a été à l'origine d'une abondante littérature exprimant la révolte, le deuil et l'interrogation sur le passé allemand. Cet article analyse quelle place et quelles formes occupe dans cette littérature le discours autoritaire du IIIème Reich qui a fait l'objet d'analyses scientifiques nombreuses. Ceci amène à constater que ce discours apparaît toujours comme un élément pernicieux, venu de l'extérieur des régions considérées et plaqué sur les particularismes locaux qu'il corrompt à la fois par son agressivité et l'uniformisation imposée, et qu'il est finalement responsable de la disparition des Provinces de l'est. C'est…
“Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Intellectual Declaration of Independence”
2002
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“‘As monumental bronze unchanged his look’: Washington Irving’s ‘Philip of Pokanoket’ (Or the Portrait of an American Hero of a Lost Cause)”
2009
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“The Problem of Imagining the National Community in Nineteenth-Century America; or, How the Historical Heritage Keeps Getting in the Way”
2012
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“Keeping Humans Out of the Picture: The (Almost) Pristine Wilderness of The Last of the Mohicans”
2021
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“Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie and the Afterlife of the History of the Acadians”
2012
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