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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 19 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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