Coming to terms with democracy
Subtitle: Federalist intellectuals and the shaping of an American culture
By: Marshall Foletta.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Federal Party (U.S.) -- History; North American review -- History; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815; United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861; United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; New England -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Intellectuals -- New England -- Political activity -- History -- 19th century
Description: "William Tudor, Willard Phillips, and Richard Henry Dana were not their fathers' Federalists. When these young New England intellectuals and their contemporaries attempted to carve out a place for themselves in the rapidly changing and increasingly unfriendly culture of the early nineteenth century, the key to their efforts was the founding, in 1815, of the North American Review.".

"Raised as Federalists and encouraged to believe that they had special responsibilities as "the wise and the good," they came of age within a cultural and political climate that no longer deferred to men of their education and background.

But unlike their fathers, who retreated in disgust before the emerging forces of democracy, these young Federalist intellectuals tried to adapt their parents' ideology to the new political and social realities and preserve for themselves a place as the first public intellectuals in America.".

"In Coming to Terms with Democracy, Marshall Foletta contends that by callling for a new American literature in their journal, the second-generation Federalists helped American readers break free from imported neoclassical standards, thus paving the way for the American Renaissance."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1. 815 1; title: CHAPTER 2. Fathers 22; title: CHAPTER 3. Sons 45; title: CHAPTER 4. Literature: The Prospects 76; title: CHAPTER 5. Literature: The Problems 101; title: CHAPTER 6. Institutions 135; title: CHAPTER 7. History 182; title: CHAPTER 8. Legacy 209.