Title Medieval America : feudalism and liberalism in nineteenth-century U.S. culture / Robert Yusef Rabiee

Published Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource Contents Feudalism and liberalism in the U.S. imaginary -- Plantation romance and southern medievalim in Poe's magazine fiction -- Melodrama of primitive accumulation : Cooper's feudal claims -- Marriage, chivalry, and feudal law : Harriet Jacobs and E. D. E. N. Southworth -- Resistance to the feudal-liberal alliance : Ridge's The life and adventures of Joaquín Murieta and Melville's Benito Cereno -- Feudalism, individualism, and authority in Emerson's later works -- Conclusion: The Kentucky castle Summary "Medieval America analyzes literary, legal, and historical archives that help tell a new story about the formation of American culture. Against Cold War-era studies of U.S. culture that argued, following political scientist Louis Hartz's "liberal consensus" model, that the United States emerged from the Revolutionary era free from Europe's feudal institutions and uninterested in the production of its medieval culture productions, Robert Yusef Rabiee contends that feudal law and medieval literature were structural components of the American cultural imaginary in the nineteenth century. The racial, gender, and class formations that emerged in the first era of U.S. nation building were deeply indebted to medieval social, political, and religious thought-an observation that challenges the liberal consensus model and allows us to better grasp how American social roles developed. Far from casting off feudal tradition, the early United States folded feudalism into its emerging liberal order, creating a knotted system of values and practices that continue to structure the American experience. Sometimes, the feudal residuum contradicted the liberal values of the Unites States. Other times, the feudal residuum bolstered those values, revealing deep sympathies between so-called "modern" and "premodern" political thought. Medieval America thus aims to reorient our discussions about American cultural and political development in terms of the long arc of European history"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed February 19, 2021) Subject Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century Medievalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century Feudal law -- Miscellanea Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century Feudal law Civilization Historiography Liberalism Literature and history Medievalism SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139939 United States -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140129 Subject United States Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780820358376 0820358371

Other Titles Feudalism and liberalism in nineteenth-century U.S. culture

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