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Washington Irving’s Critique of American Culture
- Sketching a Vision of World Citizenship
Engelsk Paperback
Washington Irving’s Critique of American Culture
- Sketching a Vision of World Citizenship
Engelsk Paperback

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Washington Irving’s Critique of American Culture: Sketching a Vision of World Citizenship challenges long-standing views of Washington Irving. He has been portrayed as writing in the 18th century style of Addison and Goldsmith, without having much substance of his own. Irving has also been accused of being insufficiently American and adrift in an identity crisis. The author argues that Irving addressed the American cultural context very extensively—he was a writer of substance who articulated an ethic of world citizenship that was found in the philosophy of ancient Greek cynics and stoics. This ethic was united with a love of picturesque travel, which emphasized variety and texture in experience, resulting in an extraordinary affirmation of the value of cultural diversity in the new Republic. Irving was, in fact, a liminal figure straddling Romantic and neoclassical modes of writing and acting. The author draws attention to Irving’s success as a writer in the pictorial mode. Irving also expressed a critique of cultural loss and environmental destruction like that articulated by the artist Thomas Cole. The work embraces an interdisciplinary approach, where insights from philosophy, religion, art history, and social history shed light on an underestimated writer.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
218
ISBN-13:
9781793619631
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1793619638
Udg. Dato:
15 apr 2023
Længde:
13mm
Bredde:
151mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
15 apr 2023
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