Colorful Conservative : American Conversations with the Ancients from Wheatley to Whitman
Overview
In The Colorful Conservative, R.O.P. L pez culls important insights into American culture from the works of Phillis Wheatley, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, William Wells Brown, and Walt Whitman. L pez contends that many of the tensions that emerged prior to the Civil War remain unresolved; thus, the nineteenth century never ended and Americans still live in the literary framework of the 1800s. Beyond political distinctions of the left and the right, there are really four poles: The Left, The Conformist Burkeans, The Anarchist-Nihilist-Libertarians, and The Colorful Conservatives. The Left and the Colorful Conservatives are the two poles most at odds with each other. The Colorful Conservatives, L pez argues, encompass these five American authors and are the driving force behind many unique paradoxes in the United States' political culture.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780761856276
- ISBN-10: 0761856277
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publish Date: September 2011
- Dimensions: 9.04 x 6.08 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
- Page Count: 396
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