Representative Americans The Romantics

Name: Representative Americans The Romantics
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ISBN: 9780742520837

ISBN-10: 0742520838

ISBN-13: 9780742520837

Edition: 2001

Authors: Norman K. Risjord

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Like the preceeding books in The Representative Americans series, The Romantics makes history human by putting tissue on the skeletal framework of names and dates. It treats people whose principal contributions fell in the first half of the nineteenth century. And while certain individuals may be unfamiliar to readers-the slaves Prince and Fed; Free Frank, a black farmer of Kentucky and Illinois; and the Lowell Girls, Lucy Lacom and Sarah Bagley-the majority of the figures studied are well-known, such as Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Horace Mann, and Catharine Beecher. Tying it all together is the prevailing spirit of American Romanticism. Visit…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/9/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.92" wide x 8.84" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: American Romanticism



The Political Theater: Andrew Jackson versus John Quincy Adams



The Soldier and the Diplomat: Fortuitous Allies



Contrasting Styles of Presidency



Old Man Eloquent



Literary Romantics



Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher-Poet



Margaret Fuller: The Romantic as Feminist



Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Romance and the Reality of Domesticity



Impulse to Reform



Horace Mann: "In a republic, ignorance is a crime"



Frances Wright: The Cost of Social Change



Catharine Beecher: The Limits of Reform



Theodore and Angelina Grimke Weld: The Antislavery Dilemma



(Un)Common Lives



Prince and Fed: Varieties of Slave Experience



Lucy Larcom and Sarah Bagley, Lowell Girls



Free Frank, Subtle Entrepreneur



Of Men and Nature



Osceola: The Tragedy of Indian Removal



Jedediah Strong Smith, Mountain Man



John C. Fremont, Destiny's Agent


Index


About the Author