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Michael Foley

in American Credo: The Place of Ideas in US Politics

This chapter examines American nationalism. American nationalism is widely reputed not only to be based upon values but to be primarily understood and expressed in terms of these characterizing ... More

This chapter examines American nationalism. American nationalism is widely reputed not only to be based upon values but to be primarily understood and expressed in terms of these characterizing principles. The ideas in questions are those core values associated with the United States — liberty, democracy, rule of law, individual rights, progress, equality, and property. In one respect, America's tradition of ‘open nationalism’ provides a satisfactory account of the country's social cohesion and ideological unity. Under these ecumenical auspices, nationalism can offer a plausible explanation of how America's disparate values have been reconciled into an amalgam capable of providing both the focal point and the unifying medium for a vast immigrant culture.Less

Creole Patriotism and the Discourse of Revolutionary Loyalism, 1792–9

Rebecca Cole Heinowitz

in Spanish America and British Romanticism, 1777-1826: Rewriting Conquest

This chapter studies two theatrical works on the conquest of Spanish America, namely John Thelwall's The Incas and Samuel Morton's Columbus. These plays adapt Marmontel's Les Incas in order to suit ... More

This chapter studies two theatrical works on the conquest of Spanish America, namely John Thelwall's The Incas and Samuel Morton's Columbus. These plays adapt Marmontel's Les Incas in order to suit the contemporary British atmosphere of conservative nationalism by replacing the Spanish protagonists with familiar English characters. The discussion analyzes the political context of the late 1790s that allowed Richard Brinsley Sheridan to omit the characters of Morton and Thelwall. It then studies Sheridan's technique of identifying the British with the Incas.Less

“The Crisis is in Man”: The Nation, the Self, and Cultural Politics in the 1930s

in The Aesthetics of Hate: Far-Right Intellectuals, Antisemitism, and Gender in 1930s France

The years 1930 to 1935 witnessed the emergence of a group of young men who were trained in the ideas of far-right and conservative nationalism and aspired to cultural and political prominence. ... More

The years 1930 to 1935 witnessed the emergence of a group of young men who were trained in the ideas of far-right and conservative nationalism and aspired to cultural and political prominence. Ranging from ultra-Catholic journalists Jean de Fabrègues and René Vincent to novelists Robert Brasillach and Georges Blond, music and film critic Lucien Rebatet, energetic polemicist Jean–Pierre Maxence, and the lesser-known but no less dedicated Pierre–Antoine Cousteau and Pierre Monnier, they were a motley collection united in their disgust with the postwar world in which they had come of age. This chapter situates these intellectuals not just within a political genealogy of far-right ideas, but also within the larger context of 1930s French cultural and aesthetic debates. It shows how categories of civilization, race, gender, and sexuality infused contemporaries' debates and discussions, and how these young intellectuals engaged and responded to them.Less