J. Woodrow McCree

Washington Irving's Critique of American Culture

Sketching a Vision of World Citizenship

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Washington Irving's Critique of American Culture argues that Irving offers not only a critique of a culture losing rootedness, but also positive multi-cultural vision of world citizenship in the new Republic. American Romantic art contemporary to Irving sheds light on his critique and positive vision of what America could be.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9781793619631
• ISBN-10: 1793619638
• Artikelnr.: 67230663

Autorenporträt

J. Woodrow McCree is professor of religion and philosophy at the State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Style with Substance
Chapter 2: Satire in the Name of World Citizenship
Chapter 3: The Picturesque Aesthetic and Neo-classical/ Romantic
Boundary-Crossing
Chapter 4: American Ovid, American Virgil, American Claude, and Pumpkin
Smasher
Chapter 5: Irving's Critique of American Culture in "The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow"
Chapter 6: World Citizenship on Frontiers Near and Far