Whistling "Dixie" for the Union (Nation, Anthem, Revision)

Hutchison, Coleman

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“…127 Her sentimentality for the de facto Confederate anthem seems odd, but Dixie enjoyed a 'fervid' popularity, gaining patriotic association through its use at Lincoln's 1861 inauguration and its widespread appeal in the north. 128 The Fourth itself saw flags raised and rockets launched, but comparing it with Queen Victoria's earlier birthday, Bradford felt underwhelmed. 129 Such views were inverted in Englishlanguage newspapers throughout China.…”

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The Only Girl in Amoy: Gender and American Patriotism in a Nineteenth‐Century Treaty Port

Larkin¹

2022

Gender & History

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In 1861, twenty-year-old Ruth Bradford accompanied her father to the Chinese treaty port of Amoy where he was to serve as American consul. Bradford recorded this trip in a diary kept from her departure from New York until her 1863 return. Drawing upon her diary, this paper explores how Bradford, as the only American woman in Amoy, refined her sense-of-self through interracial and cross-cultural encounters with the settlement's Chinese and British inhabitants. The paper argues that through critical comparison with these communities, Bradford, like other nineteenth-century American women in China, consolidated and articulated her gendered, racial and burgeoning patriotic national identity.Everybody that calls looks so hard at me, as if they wanted to make up their minds just at once as to what I was like, whether they should like me or no, and whether I would 'pass muster'. I am the only American lady here and the only young girl, so I suppose I am an object of some curiosity. Nearly all here are English. Ruth Bradford, 1 May 1862 1 They make as much of me here as if I was the only girl in the world, instead of the only one in Amoy.

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The Only Girl in Amoy: Gender and American Patriotism in a Nineteenth‐Century Treaty Port

Larkin¹

2022

Gender & History

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“…For the impact of the new market economy, see Sellers (1991). 4 Hutchison (2007) has asserted the need for recognizing the transnational nature of the late antebellum and Civil War periods, especially for critical readings of cultural objects. For other competing nationalisms of the nineteenth century, see Levine (2008).…”

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“…Whether we characterize the antebellum period as one of increasingly entrenched sectionalism, as Loughran contends, or as one of many competing nationalisms, as Coleman Hutchison (2007) and Robert Levine (2008) have suggested, print culture has been understood as an important component in fostering identifications with a national community. 4 Those identifications, in turn, remove decision making from the local level and relocate it at a remove, placing it in the hands of the few representing the interests of the nation.…”

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“It’s Good to Be Shifty”: The Local Democracies of Old Southwestern Humor

Emerson

2013

American Literature

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Emerson’s essay reassesses representative texts of the popular antebellum tradition known as Old Southwestern Humor—among them Augustus Baldwin Longstreet’s Georgia Scenes (1835), Johnson Jones Hooper’s Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1845), and George Washington Harris’s Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a Durn’d Fool (1867)— arguing for a new point of departure from the level of locality and with special attention to democratic decision making. Most nation-oriented readings portray the humor of the Old Southwest either as a regional subset supplementing nationalization via print culture or as reactionary polemics rejecting the impingements of nation, market capitalism, urbanization, or modernity. This essay, instead, reads these fictions in terms of locality and for their articulations of alternative democratic socialities. These socialities, Emerson argues, evidence local decision making existing alongside or outside the abstracting, normalizing tendencies of elitist republican ideology; they are unreceptive to traditional social hierarchies and civic institutions that supplement the Constitutionally managed nation-state; and they often engage in a more radical version of democracy characterized by dialogical negotiations in immediate spaces and temporalities. Unyoked from the nation and its norms, these local episodes yield an unexpected trove of alternative democratic positions in the mid-nineteenth century. In addition to new readings of the primary texts, Emerson concludes with some consideration of their circulation in print culture across the country and their subsequent impact on democracy in the national imaginary.

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Coda: War and the Renaissance

Phillips¹

2018

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance

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Whistling "Dixie" for the Union (Nation, Anthem, Revision)

Cited by 14 publications

References 12 publications

The Only Girl in Amoy: Gender and American Patriotism in a Nineteenth‐Century Treaty Port

The Only Girl in Amoy: Gender and American Patriotism in a Nineteenth‐Century Treaty Port

“It’s Good to Be Shifty”: The Local Democracies of Old Southwestern Humor

Coda: War and the Renaissance

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