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• W227368189 abstract "Conflicts between provincial and cosmopolitan values, usually dramatized by pitting country bumpkins against city slickers, are so numerous in nineteenth-century American literature that in writing about them, one must resist an impulse to assemble catalogue. In Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) Brom Bones chases Ichabod Crane (a foppish outsider from Connecticut) from his enclave of No-Change and thereby saves local harvest goddess, Katrina Van Tassel, from disastrous and exploitative marriage. In James Kirke Paulding's play The Lion of West (1830) Nimrod Wildfire serves as backwoods champion of indigenous mores which have been temporarily threatened by supercilious English critic, Mrs. Wollope. And dour round of comedy is provided by James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie (1827) when Natty Bumppo repeatedly demonstrates--to his own satisfaction at least--that learned Dr. Obet Bat is hopeless ninny whenever he strays from narrow territory charted by his books. The didactic purpose of all such conflicts is perfectly plain: provincial values, which originate in necessities of frontier conditions, unflaggingly prove their superiority over those being superimposed from effete world beyond. Thus we have that enduring and ubiquitous American robustly innocent creature fabricated of roughly equal parts of simple heart and common sense, who, while docile and modest under normal circumstances, possesses power to outwit or to overthrow smart alecks who encroach upon his cultural dominion. Perhaps best-known literary example of this conflict is Mark Twain's sketch Dandy Frightening Squatter. (1) Into waterlogged back-country of Squatter, seemingly inert and apathetic creature, comes who sports a killing moustache and wishes to perform some heroic deed for benefit of ladies aboard steamboat. He is compulsive aggressor who, not content with invading Squatter's territory, requires public endorsement of his superiority through humiliation of local inhabitant. Thrusting bowie-knife into his belt and grasping horse-pistol in each hand, he accosts Squatter and pretends that he has at last found long-lost enemy: Say your prayers! You'll make capital barn door, and shall drill key-hole myself! Without word, Squatter plants his huge fist between eyes of his astonished antagonist and knocks him into Mississippi. The Squatter's easy mastery of tables-turned situation is underscored by his parting verbal shot at the crestfallen hero, who sneaks back to boat: I say, yeou, next time yeou come around drillin' key-holes, don't forget yer old acquaintances! Natural force has vanquished artificial tinsel; high has been crushingly dethroned by low. Even ladies, those arbiters of chivalric contests and torchbearers of civilizing arts, express their satisfaction at outcome by voting bowie-knife and pistols to victor. Threatened as they were by lengthening shadows of social change and diminution of local autonomy, backcountry audiences seemed to find irresistible those skits and stories which focused upon drubbing of dandy. Here was their vicarious revenge upon encroaching swarms of flush-time speculators, Philadelphia lawyers, and Yankefied visitors from bourns east of Hudson. That young Sam Clemens merely polished up time-worn folk story is evident when we place his sketch beside Joseph Doddridge's Dialogue of Backwoodsman and Dandy, dramatic skit produced at Buffaloe Seminary of Brooke County, Virginia, in 1821. (2) Both contain same xenophobic defensiveness imbedded within their central theme, and both portray rustic innocent achieving an easy victory, by first blow and by last word, over pretentious intruder. The Doddridge skit consists of dialogue between an old, buck-skinned backwoodsman and spruce young dandy who wishes to learn about life in early settlements. …" @default.
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• W227368189 date "1987-09-22" @default.
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• W227368189 title "Dandy versus Squatter: An Earlier Round" @default.
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