You might also like

More about Young America

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 176 loyalty points

Book synopsis

This study examines the meteoric rise and subsequent disintegration of a vigorous American literary-political movement in the 1840s. Calling itself "Young America," the group found a mouthpiece in "The Democratic Review", a literary magazine funded by the Democratic Party and edited by the brash and charismatic John O'Sullivan. The Review was not only a major voice in American politics, but also sponsored such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman and greatly influenced Herman Melville, before it and Young America faded from the national consciousness after the Mexican-American War.

Book details

Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Young America
• Subtitle: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City
• Author: Edward L. Widmer
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 298
• EAN: 9780195100501
• ISBN: 0195100506
• ID: 04513724
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 607 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 162 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. March 1999

Trending among others

---

---

---