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The American Image of the Old World

Name: The American Image of the Old World
ISBN: 9781779792150

Cushing Strout,

English
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eBook - ePub

The American Image of the Old World

Cushing Strout,

About this book

In The American Image of the Old World , Cushing Strout offers a penetrating intellectual history of how Americans from the late 18th to early 20th centuries perceived Europe—the so-called "Old World." Strout explores how Europe was alternately revered and rejected by Americans as a cultural mirror, moral contrast, and ideological foil. Through careful analysis of essays, travel accounts, sermons, and political treatises, he examines the evolving attitudes of prominent thinkers and writers—including Emerson, Hawthorne, Henry Adams, and others—toward European traditions, monarchies, and intellectual life. These reflections shaped a distinctly American identity, rooted in ideals of democracy, progress, and individualism, but shadowed by envy, ambivalence, and cultural longing. Strout skillfully charts this transatlantic tension, revealing how American thought was both nourished and challenged by its European heritage. Part literary analysis, part cultural history, this book is a vital study of the philosophical debates that shaped American self-perception in contrast to Europe's enduring legacy.

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