Edward Larkin (University of Delaware)

The American School of Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

"The American School of Empire considers how an American idea of empire evolved in the 1790s and would shape and be shaped by the literature and art of the early US. Hamilton's introductory essay suggests that empire was as important to the foundation ofthe US as concepts like democracy, freedom, nation, and republic. This book thus begins from the premise that the history of empire in the United States can be traced back to the inception of the country, if not earlier. It contends that the United States was conceived as an empire, culturally, politically, and legally. Empire, as a broad theory for organizing not only the state but also the understanding of difference and the relationship to space, in other words, was a crucial conceptual frame shaping the culture of the early US"--Provided by publisher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781107140202
• ISBN-10: 110714020X
• Artikelnr.: 45188474

Autorenporträt

Edward Larkin is Professor of English and Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution (2010), has edited Paine's Common Sense (2004) and published essays in journals such as American Literary History, Diaspora, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and Early American Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Nation and empire in the early United States; 2. The cosmopolitan revolution
loyalism and the fiction of an American nation; 3. The painterly form of Empire
West, Copley and late eighteenth century Anglo
American history painting; 4. Between empires
the Old World, the frontier, and the expansion of the United States.