Young America
The Flowering of Democracy in New York City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16304929 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leslie Butler (corresponding author), Edward L Widmer |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 485 |
| Publication date | 1999-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/366896 |
| OpenAlex | W2022869869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
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 inflenced Herman Melville, before it and Young America faded from the national consciousness after the Mexican-American War
Democracy · Economic history · Political science · Politics · American and British Literature Analysis · History · Law · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
Our Country Is Destined to be the Great Nation of Futurity
The Slaves That They Are” and the Slaves That They Might Become
The Internationalisation of Copyright Law
Stuart Hall and the Whiteness of the Whale
Young American Puns
The "becoming-past" of places
Filibusters, Fenians, and a Contested Neutrality
Margaret Fuller's Conversational Journalism
Extermination and Democracy
| Citations per year | 0.39 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2017 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |