Tracing continuities between literature, material culture, and pedagogical theory, William Huntting Howell uncovers an America that celebrated the virtues of humility, contingency, and connection to a complex whole over ambition, individuality, and distinction.
Introduction: Imitation Is Suicide
PART I. COPY-WRITING
Chapter 1. Imitatio Franklin, or the American Example
Chapter 2. Phillis Wheatley's Dependent Harmonies
PART II. EMULATION AND ETHICS
Chapter 3. Reproducing David Rittenhouse
Chapter 4. The Republican Girl and the Spirit of Emulation
PART III. CRITIQUES AND AFFIRMATIONS
Chapter 5. The Horrors of the Republican Machine
Chapter 6. The Copyist Moby-Dick
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
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Against Self-Reliance von William Huntting Howell - mit der ISBN: 9780812291162
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