| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
991624
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
b745994
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
Tamarkin, Elisa.
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
Anglophilia : : deference, devotion, and antebellum America /\ Elisa Tamarkin.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2008.
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
1 online resource (xxxiii, 400 pages) :: illustrations
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
0226789438
|
|
|
:
|
: 1281966622
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780226789439
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781281966629
|
|
|
:
|
0226789446
|
|
|
:
|
9780226789446
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-381) and index.
|
| Contents
|
:
|
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface: Paying Respects; 1 Monarch-Love; or, How the Prince of Wales Saved the Union; 2 Imperial Nostalgia: American Elegies for British Empire; 3 Freedom and Deference: Society, Antislavery, and BlackIntellectualism; 4 The Anglophile Academy; Notes; Index.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
Anglophilia charts the phenomenon of the love of Britain that emerged after the Revolution and remains in the character of U.S. society and class, the style of academic life, and the idea of American intellectualism. But as Tamarkin shows, this Anglophilia was more than just an elite nostalgia; it was popular devotion that made reverence for British tradition instrumental to the psychological innovations of democracy. Anglophilia spoke to fantasies of cultural belonging, polite sociability, and, finally, deference itself as an affective practice within egalitarian politics. Tamarkin traces the.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Democracy-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Political culture-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Public opinion-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Civilization-- British influences.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Civilization.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Democracy-- Social aspects.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
HISTORY.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
|
| Subject
|
:
|
International relations.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Political culture.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Popular culture.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Public opinion, American.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Public opinion.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Great Britain, Foreign public opinion, American.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Great Britain, Relations, United States.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
United States, Civilization, British influences.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
United States, Civilization, 1783-1865.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
United States, History, Revolution, 1775-1783, Influence.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
United States, Relations, Great Britain.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Great Britain.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
United States.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
973.3
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
E165.T17 2008eb
|