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Walden Pond could be taken as another site in which Thoreau refigures ''familiar fields'' as ''another land
(1984)
Bourdieu defines the ''aesthetic disposition'' in Kantian terms as ''the capacity to consider in and for themselves, as form rather than function, not only . . . works of art
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Fisher contends that Longfellow, Parkman, and Cooper each write a ''pre-history of America and each designs the nation's beginning as at least partially, a stain and guilty supersession'' (27)
Sacvan Bercovitch (1992)
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Francis Murphy, Lawrence Buell (1973)
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Hietala is an exception who does write about an earlier period, the 1840s; however, his argument works at cross purposes. On the one hand, he wishes to present this decade as an era of foreign policy
CW, 11:143. Emerson extracted these words from a journal entry of 1844 (see
I. Kant, W. Pluhar (2000)
Critique of judgment
He attributes the failure of the christianizing missions in the United States to a ''modern version'' of the ideology of the chosen people, arguing that the
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A. Tocqueville (2018)
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For a different reading of the significance of this passage, see Myra Jehlen
M. Pratt (1992)
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Even the thick physicality of the more typical Thoreauvian landscape retains a sense of infinitude, like the ''impermeable and unfathomable bog[s]'' he imagines would be ideal as a front lawn
This idea is most closely associated with J. von Herder, followed by V. Cousin, both of whom Emerson read (see Nicoloff
Kant notes that the sublime's inevitable erasure of the physical world entails a certain ''sacrifice'': ''[A] satisfaction in the sublime of nature is
Sacvan Bercovitch (1979)
The American Jeremiad
G. Brown, R. Alstyne (1960)
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Richard Birdsall, Philip Nicoloff (1962)
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At another, he seems to contradict the notion of innateness and argues that the basis for aesthetic judgment is cultural: ''[W]ithout a development of moral ideas
which is the last and endless end of Columbus' adventure
David Pletcher (1973)
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Thoreau's encampment at Walden a re-creation of Anglo-European settlement in the New World (see, for example, Richard Slotkin, Mythology of the American Frontier
R. Rusk (1949)
The life of Ralph Waldo EmersonThe New England Quarterly, 21
(1961)
In contrast, for Emerson there can be no rebirth, and the only beneficiaries of conquest are the victors (see Philip Nicoloff, Emerson on Race and History: An Examination of
(1988)
who served in Polk's cabinet, later wrote that his administration was ''perhaps the greatest in our national history, certainly one of the greatest'' when ''viewed from the standpoint of results
Boston Public Library Quarterly 7 [1955]: 30-60). Anderson argues that al-Emerson's ''Inquest'' and Cultural Regeneration 79
The Great Nation of Futurity
(1990)
Onward is also an expansionist buzz word: ''[W]e are onward,'' ''onward bound,'' or simply ''[O]nward! onward!'' In this era ''onwardness'' was in fact synonymous with expansionism
Philip Fisher (1985)
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Walden and Other Writings
Walter Lafeber (1964)
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American Literature (immediately or eventually), expansionism and democracy could be perceived not as contradictory but as complementary. It is precisely through the domestication of conï¬ict, in fact, that expansionism becomes the great antithesis of both colonialism and slavery. Thus the United States is an ââempire of free men,ââ as Zachary Taylor memorably exclaims in the opening words of his ââFirst Annual Messageââ as president in 1849.4 In Calhoun and Websterâs Senate debate, ethical and legal questions about land seizure are circumvented by the premise upon which the debate relies, for pro- and anti-expansionists alike: Oregon is not out there but in here, already part of the United States. The ââsingle questionââ remaining, then, concerns constitutional jurisdiction: how will Oregon now be administered? 5 The battleground is thus not the material land but a documentâthe Constitutionâand the players are not rival claimants to the land but two Americans defending the documentâs integrity. Likewise, in the oï¬cial discourse on expansion, the conquest of North America is typically dramatized as the process of U.S. self-deï¬nition. The conï¬ict between self and other is thus reï¬gured as an internal struggle.6 With the subject changed from territorial conquest to domestic issues of constitutionality, slavery,
American Literature – Duke University Press
Published: Mar 1, 2001
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