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Elisa Tamarkin

Anglophilia

Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America

384 pages, 38 halftones  6 x 9  © 2007

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ISBN: 9780226789446   Published July 2008

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Acknowledgments
Preface: Paying Respects

Chapter One: Monarch-Love; or, How the Prince of Wales Saved the Union
   “E Pluribus Unum, or in English, Welcome to the Prince”
   Anachronism and Style (More Twaddle about the Queen)
   Sovereigns, Substitutes, and Emptiness
   The Renewal and Uses of Filial Piety
   Hawthorne’s Mystic Threads
 
Chapter Two: Imperial Nostalgia: American Elegies for British Empire
   The Dullness of Patriotism
   A Case of Surrender
   Delicacies of War
   The Elegiac Return to Dependence
   Empire of Beauty
   Loyal Archives and the Reluctance to Rebel
   Women Folks Are Natural Tories: Love in the Age of Revolution

Chapter Three: Freedom and Deference: Society, Antislavery, and Black Intellectualism
   The Importance of Being English
   Caste and Conduct
   The Chivalry of Antislavery
   The Sociability of Antislavery (and Diversions of Reform)
   Black Anglo-Saxonism

Chapter Four: The Anglophile Academy
   Harvard Indifference: The Social Life of College
   The Sincerity of Dilettantes
   The English Accent
   Pomp and Circumstance; or, How to Be a Chum
   Coda: Education and Nostalgia

Notes
Index
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