Against Self-Reliance: The Arts of Dependence in the Early United States

by William Huntting Howell

Individualism is arguably the most vital tenet of American national identity: American cultural heroes tend to be mavericks and nonconformists, and independence is the fulcrum of the American origin story. But in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a number of American artists, writers, and educational philosophers cast imitation and emulation as central to the linked projects of imagining the self and consolidating the nation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812247035
• ISBN13: 9780812247039
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"