Early Nineteenth-Century New Yorkers and the Invention of New York City

This essay explores the « invention » of New York City in the antebellum era, or the parallel forms of cultural processes and elaborations that led to the emergence of a new sense of self-awareness in the city. It first evokes the contradictory ways in which a literary and artistic culture developed...

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Main Author:	François WEIL
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2010-03-01
Series:	E-REA
Subjects:	antebellum era culture engravings genealogy guidebooks history
Online Access:	http://journals.openedition.org/erea/1190

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spelling	doaj-275e8b96f73e46cdb66fdb01f06c4d492020-11-24T22:08:43ZengLaboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)E-REA1638-17182010-03-01710.4000/erea.1190Early Nineteenth-Century New Yorkers and the Invention of New York CityFrançois WEILThis essay explores the « invention » of New York City in the antebellum era, or the parallel forms of cultural processes and elaborations that led to the emergence of a new sense of self-awareness in the city. It first evokes the contradictory ways in which a literary and artistic culture developed. It then attempts to reveal how New Yorkers translated their ancestral pride and identity feelings into historical and genealogical pursuits. It finally explores the way in which some works contributed to the creation of a new grammar, a new image, in order to draw the contours of the geography and sociology of the new metropolis.http://journals.openedition.org/erea/1190antebellum eracultureengravingsgenealogyguidebookshistory
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title	Early Nineteenth-Century New Yorkers and the Invention of New York City
title_short	Early Nineteenth-Century New Yorkers and the Invention of New York City
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description	This essay explores the « invention » of New York City in the antebellum era, or the parallel forms of cultural processes and elaborations that led to the emergence of a new sense of self-awareness in the city. It first evokes the contradictory ways in which a literary and artistic culture developed. It then attempts to reveal how New Yorkers translated their ancestral pride and identity feelings into historical and genealogical pursuits. It finally explores the way in which some works contributed to the creation of a new grammar, a new image, in order to draw the contours of the geography and sociology of the new metropolis.
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Early Nineteenth-Century New Yorkers and the Invention of New York City

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