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Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson : Joseph Dennie and The Port Folio, 1801-1812
author
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Dowling, William C.
publisher
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University of South Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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1570032432
print isbn13
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9781570032431
ebook isbn13
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9780585330846
language
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English
subject
Dennie, Joseph,--1768-1812--Political and social views, Politics and literature--United States--History--19th century, Authors, American--19th century--Political and social views, Federal government--United States--History--19th century, American literatu
publication date
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1999
lcc
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PS1534.D6D69 1999eb
ddc
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814/.2
subject
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Dennie, Joseph,--1768-1812--Political and social views, Politics and literature--United States--History--19th century, Authors, American--19th century--Political and social views, Federal government--United States--History--19th century, American literatu
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Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson
Joseph Dennie and The Port Folio, 18011812
William C. Dowling
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1999 University of South Carolina
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
Manufactured in the United States of America
03 02 01 00 99 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dowling, William C. Literary federalism in the age of Jefferson : Joseph Dennie and The port folio, 18011812 / William C. Dowling. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-57003-243-2 1. Dennie, Joseph, 17681812Political and social views. 2. Politics and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th century. 3. Authors, American19th centuryPolitical and social views. 4. Federal governmentUnited StatesHistory19th century. 5. American literature17831850History and criticism. 6. United StatesPolitics and government18011809. 7. United States Politics and government18091817. 8. Jefferson, Thomas, 17431826In literature. 9. American periodicalsHistory19th century. 10. Port folio. I. Title. PS1534.D6D69 1999 814'.2dc21 97-45469
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For Quentin Anderson
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Contents
Preface
ix
1 The Demon Democracy
1
2 Oliver Oldschool
28
3 The Philosophy of Merriment
50
4 The Republic of Letters
69
Notes
89
A Note on Sources
101
Selected Bibliography
108
Index
123
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Preface
This book is about the literary opposition to Thomas Jefferson in the early years of the American republic, in particular in The Port Folio magazine edited by Joseph Dennie out of Philadelphia between 1801 and 1811. It concentrates on an unremarked episode, the gradual withdrawal of the Federalist writers from overt political opposition to Jefferson into a specific realm of literary or aesthetic values, as though the Federalism of such men as Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, having been banished from the realm of politics, had then found sanctuary in a separate sphere of writing where it survived as a mode of literary expression. Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson thus attempts both to analyze what Louis Simpson has called "the paradoxical, complex estrangement of American men of letters from the Revolution and the new nation" ("Symbolism" 82) and to account for the genesis of a distinct and important strain in American thought and writing.
To read through The Port Folio during the years of Dennie's editorship is to find oneself in the very midst of what I shall be calling the Federalist retreat from history, a long and complex withdrawal in which Federalism, banished from the civic sphere by a triumphant Jeffersonian ideology, seeks an alternative home in what we now call the public sphere but what the Port Folio writers called, in the usual eighteenth-century phrase, the republic of letters. By the end of the process, as we shall see, literary Federalism will have emerged as such through its powerful imaginative identification with the late-Augustan milieu of Johnson and Goldsmith and Burke in England, a literary
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world itself sustained amid a clamorous modernity by its memory of traditional or organic society. This is the period during which Oliver Goldsmith became the tutelary spirit of literary Federalism, presiding over a mode in American writing originating in The Port Folio and bequeathed by Dennie in his last years to his young protg Washington Irving in New York.
The protagonist of the story of literary Federalism is The Port Folio itself, entering as the collective consciousness or voice of Federalism into unremitting ideological warfare against Jeffersonian democracy. The normal eighteenth-century convention of an editorial persona"Oliver Oldschool," discussed in chapter 2 as the imaginary or collective voice of Federalist valueshas accordingly seemed to me to demand a mode of phenomenological reading, taking The Port Folio as a self-contained universe of discourse that asks the reader to look outward from its own literary horizon upon the crowded scene of the early American republic. This demands a certain adjustment of historical perspective. Thus it is, for instance, that from inside the world of
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