Washington Irving's Critique of American Culture

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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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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