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• W4205426426 abstract "Cultural (Inter-)Nationalism:Orestes Brownson and the World Republic of Letters Tim Sommer (bio) When critic and editor Orestes Brownson reviewed a collection of John Greenleaf Whittier's abolitionist poetry in the January 1838 inaugural issue of his Boston Quarterly Review, the greatest praise he could imagine to celebrate the volume was that it had come from the pen of a genuinely American poet.1 Whittier deserved the epithet neither because of his citizenship status nor for rehearsing the phrases of a vulgar patriotism, Brownson argued, but because he was American in an emphatic sense that transcended narrow nation-state confines and the myopic parochialism of national culture (WP, 24). The word American means more than this to us, Brownson clarified, explaining that we call Mr. Whittier an American poet, because his soul is filled and enlarged with … the Idea of universal freedom to universal man (WP, 23). During his tenure as the editor of the Boston Quarterly (1838–42) and beyond, reading contemporary American writing allowed Brownson to envisage the antebellum United States as a utopian sphere in which to imagine nation-centered conceptions of literature and culture as provisional and soon to be overcome. Yet his effusions about national literature simultaneously assumed a more ambiguous shape, with a seemingly clearcut [End Page 1] universalism undermined by its hybridization with the tropes of a more narrowly sectional rhetoric of national providence. When Brownson wrote about American literature in the 1830s and 1840s, he did so with a wide range of gradations that, often within the same text, combined soaring visions of inter- and postnationality with elements closer to the vulgar patriotism that he found objectionable in his contemporaries. The cosmopolitan Idea of universal freedom and universal man that he invoked in his praise of Whittier was, to him, after all more narrowly circumscribed as the Idea which God has appointed the American people to bring out and embody (WP, 23). Brownson's link between the American and what transcended it was thus a transnational vision that remained rooted in an exceptionalist logic of nationality. In positing a privileged relationship between the United States and the vision of a postnational universalist future, his writing resembles more recent versions of transnational rhetoric within American literary and cultural studies. This contemporary incarnation of the idea of the transnational, as Jared Hickman has argued, often tends to return to … the Enlightenment localization of the universal in 'America,' thus reasserting the very exceptionalism it sets out to critique.2 This nexus between nineteenth-century writing and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century criticism is hardly surprising, given that many transnationalist or globalist readings of American literature have taken the antebellum corpus as their chief object of study. To be sure, Transcendentalist and American Renaissance writing had been at the center of debates about literature and nationality before. Signature moments such as Ralph Waldo Emerson's farewell to the courtly muses of Europe in his 1837 oration before Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Society served subsequent commentators as evidence that by the late 1830s American writers had finally become aware of the nation's differential identity and its aesthetic potential.3 As American literary [End Page 2] studies emerged and subsequently consolidated into an academic discipline, Emerson's American Scholar—indeed, the nineteenth-century canon more broadly—came to be read as advancing a celebratory poetics of cultural autonomy and national expression.4 Whereas earlier scholarship had often endorsed such a historically authorized legitimation of its own field, revisionist critics from the 1980s onwards grew increasingly impatient with national narratives. While maintaining that Emerson and many of his contemporaries were committed to the nation, they found such commitment indicative of an ideological co-optation of literature by antebellum nationalism and imperialism, and diagnosed an alarming intersection between U.S. expansionism and Emersonian individualism at which Transcendentalist discourse became a fraught correlative to contemporary expansionist movements in the political sphere.5 The tide has recently turned once again, with critics after the transnational turn emphasizing nineteenth-century writing's cosmopolitan undercurrents. While Emerson, for example, may seem invested in the idea of the national, he was an intermittent nationalist at best, Lawrence Buell has argued..." @default.
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• W4205426426 title "Cultural (Inter-)Nationalism: Orestes Brownson and the World Republic of Letters" @default.
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