Against Self-Reliance : : The Arts of Dependence in the Early United States / / William Huntting Howell.
Individualism is arguably the most vital tenet of American national identity: American cultural heroes tend to be mavericks and nonconformists, and independence is the fulcrum of the American origin story. But in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a number of American artists, write...
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Howell, William Huntting, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Against Self-Reliance : The Arts of Dependence in the Early United States / William Huntting Howell. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (312 p.) : 19 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Early American Studies Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Imitation Is Suicide -- Part I. Copy-Writing -- Chapter 1. Imitatio Franklin, or the American Example -- Chapter 2. Phillis Wheatley's Dependent Harmonies -- Part II. Emulation and Ethics -- Chapter 3. Reproducing David Rittenhouse -- Chapter 4. The Republican Girl and the Spirit of Emulation -- Part III. Critiques and Affirmations -- Chapter 5. The Horrors of the Republican Machine -- Chapter 6. The Copyist Moby-Dick -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Individualism is arguably the most vital tenet of American national identity: American cultural heroes tend to be mavericks and nonconformists, and independence is the fulcrum of the American origin story. But in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a number of American artists, writers, and educational philosophers cast imitation and emulation as central to the linked projects of imagining the self and consolidating the nation. Tracing continuities between literature, material culture, and pedagogical theory, William Huntting Howell uncovers an America that celebrated the virtues of humility, contingency, and connection to a complex whole over ambition and distinction.Against Self-Reliance revalues and rethinks what it meant to be repetitive, derivative or pointedly generic in the early republic and beyond. Howell draws on such varied sources as Benjamin Franklin's programs for moral reform, Phillis Wheatley's devotional poetry, David Rittenhouse's coins and astronomical machines, Benjamin Rush's psychological and political theory, Susanna Rowson's schoolbooks, and the novels of Charles Brockden Brown and Herman Melville to tease out patterns of dependence in early America. With its incisive critique of America's storied heroic individualism, Against Self-Reliance argues that the arts of dependence were-and are-critical to the project of American independence. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) American literature 1783-1850 History and criticism. . American literature 1783-1850 History and criticism. Dependency. Dependency. . Imitation. Imitation. . National characteristics, American History 18th century. . National characteristics, American History 19th century. . National characteristics, American History 18th century. National characteristics, American History 19th century. Originality. Originality. . Repetition (Aesthetics). Repetition (Aesthetics) . Women Education United States History 18th century. . Women Education United States History 19th century. . Women Education United States History 18th century. Women Education United States History 19th century. Literature. HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800). bisacsh American History. American Studies. Cultural Studies. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 9783110439687 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2015 9783110438635 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Package 2014-2015 9783110665932 print 9780812247039 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291162 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812291162 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812291162.jpg |
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