The romantics / Norman K. Risjord.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Risjord, Norman K.

Series:

Risjord, Norman K. Representative Americans

Representative Americans

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

United States--History--1815-1861--Biography.

United States.

Statesmen--United States--Biography.

Statesmen.

United States--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, [2001]

Summary:

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 our website for sample chapters!

Contents:

Introduction: American Romanticism xi

Part 1 The Political Theater: Andrew Jackson versus John Quincy Adams

1. The Soldier and the Diplomat: Fortuitous Allies 3

2. Contrasting Styles of Presidency 31

3. Old Man Eloquent 51

Part 2 Literary Romantics

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher-Poet 75

5. Margaret Fuller: The Romantic as Feminist 101

6. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Romance and the Reality of Domesticity 125

Part 3 Impulse to Reform

7. Horace Mann: "In a republic, ignorance is a crime" 153

8. Frances Wright: The Cost of Social Change 179

9. Catharine Beecher: The Limits of Reform 205

10. Theodore and Angelina Grimke Weld: The Antislavery Dilemma 223

Part 4 (Un)Common Lives

11. Prince and Fed: Varieties of Slave Experience 251

12. Lucy Larcom and Sarah Bagley, Lowell Girls 273

13. Free Frank, Subtle Entrepreneur 289

Part 5 Of Men and Nature

14. Osceola: The Tragedy of Indian Removal 309

15. Jedediah Strong Smith, Mountain Man 335

16. John C. Fremont, Destiny's Agent 355.

Notes:

"A Madison House book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0742520838

074252082X

OCLC:

47054666