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1. "The old race are all gone": Transatlantic Bloodlines and English Traits.

Author

Hanlon, Christopher

Subjects
*RACE, *SAXONS, *NORMANS, *SLAVERY, *EIGHTEENTH century, ENGLISH civilization
Abstract

An essay is presented on the aspects of America's attitude towards England during the 1840s and 1850s in connection with the book "English Traits," by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The issue of race is also given attention in the article with a focus on the Saxons and the Normans from the North and South. Slavery is also briefly discussed as well as the developments of English history within the transatlantic culture of the 1840s and 1850s.

Published
2007
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