After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American CultureW. W. Norton & Company, 17/03/2002 - 274 من الصفحات Through portraits of four figures—Charles Willson Peale, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, William Dunlap, and Noah Webster—Joseph Ellis provides a unique perspective on the role of culture in post-Revolutionary America, both its high expectations and its frustrations. An entrepreneur, a writer who wanted to depict an ideal society, a dramatist who tried to reconcile high aesthetic standards and populism, and a Connecticut Yankee who ran into the contradictions of conservatism and liberalism—each of the four men depicted in this book had a vision of what kind of society post-Revolutionary America should be. Through portraits of these bellwether figures, the prize-winning historian Joseph J. Ellis examines the currents that were shaping the new country. |
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Paradoxes Culture and Capitalism | 23 |
Profiles | 39 |
Charles Willson Peale Portrait of the American Artist as Virtuous Entrepreneur | 41 |
Hugh Henry Brackenridge The Novelist as Reluctant Democrat | 73 |
William Dunlap The Dramatist as Benevolent Patriarch | 113 |
Noah Webster The Connecticut Yankee as Nationalist | 161 |
New Critics Toward Emerson | 213 |
Notes | 223 |
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