Anglophilia
Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America
384 pages, 38 halftones 6 x 9
©
2007
Cloth $35.00
ISBN: 9780226789446
Published July 2008
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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