Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (October 25, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300192576
ISBN-13: 978-0300192575
Description :
The accepted myth of the “American Enlightenment” suggests that the
rejection of monarchy and establishment of a new republic in the United
States in the eighteenth century was the realization of utopian
philosophies born in the intellectual salons of Europe and radiating
outward to the New World. In this revelatory work, Stanford historian
Caroline Winterer argues that a national mythology of a unitary,
patriotic era of enlightenment in America was created during the Cold
War to act as a shield against the threat of totalitarianism, and that
Americans followed many paths toward political, religious, scientific,
and artistic enlightenment in the 1700s that were influenced by European
models in more complex ways than commonly thought. Winterer’s book
strips away our modern inventions of the American national past,
exploring which of our ideas and ideals are truly rooted in the
eighteenth century and which are inventions and mystifications of more
recent times.
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