Characteristically American
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Author | : Joy Giguere |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2014-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1621900770 |
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Prior to the nineteenth century, few Americans knew anything more of Egyptian culture than what could be gained from studying the biblical Exodus. Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt at the end of the eighteenth century, however, initiated a cultural breakthrough for Americans as representations of Egyptian culture flooded western museums and publications, sparking a growing interest in all things Egyptian that was coined Egyptomania. As Egyptomania swept over the West, a relatively young America began assimilating Egyptian culture into its own national identity, creating a hybrid national heritage that would vastly affect the memorial landscape of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Far more than a study of Egyptian revivalism, this book examines the Egyptian style of commemoration from the rural cemetery to national obelisks to the Sphinx at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Giguere argues that Americans adopted Egyptian forms of commemoration as readily as other neoclassical styles such as Greek revivalism, noting that the American landscape is littered with monuments that define the Egyptian style’s importance to American national identity. Of particular interest is perhaps America’s greatest commemorative obelisk: the Washington Monument. Standing at 555 feet high and constructed entirely of stone—making it the tallest obelisk in the world—the Washington Monument represents the pinnacle of Egyptian architecture’s influence on America’s desire to memorialize its national heroes by employing monumental forms associated with solidity and timelessness. Construction on the monument began in 1848, but controversy over its design, which at one point included a Greek colonnade surrounding the obelisk, and the American Civil War halted construction until 1877. Interestingly, Americans saw the completion of the Washington Monument after the Civil War as a mending of the nation itself, melding Egyptian commemoration with the reconstruction of America. As the twentieth century saw the rise of additional commemorative obelisks, the Egyptian Revival became ensconced in American national identity. Egyptian-style architecture has been used as a form of commemoration in memorials for World War I and II, the civil rights movement, and even as recently as the 9/11 remembrances. Giguere places the Egyptian style in a historical context that demonstrates how Americans actively sought to forge a national identity reminiscent of Egyptian culture that has endured to the present day.
Author | : Joy Giguere |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2014-06-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1621900398 |
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Her articles have appeared in the Journal of the Civil War Era and Markers: The Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies.
Author | : Ralph Barton Perry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : National characteristics, American |
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Author | : Zoltan Kovecses |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2000-09-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1770484280 |
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This book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.
Author | : Henry Louis Mencken |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Americanisms |
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Release | : 1949 |
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Author | : Ralph Barton Perry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : National characteristics, American |
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Author | : Ralph Barton Perry |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2015-09-06 |
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ISBN | : 9781341738821 |
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Total Pages | : 1420 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Music |
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Author | : D. E. S. Maxwell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2017-10-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351579797 |
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Originally published in 1963. The ‘Americanness’ of the American novel is as readily apparent as it is elusive of definition. It is the purpose of this study not to discover the reluctant formula, the comprehensive statement of national identity, but to examine the evidences of this identity in the work of some individual American writers. This study explores the works of many prominent American authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Nathanial Hawthorne, and Mark Twain.