The Temple and the Forum : the American museum and cultural authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman /

The history of nineteenth-century American culture, and museum culture in particular, is marked by a conflict between competing conceptions of the cultural arena: the temple, an elitist, aristocratic configuration of culture, and the forum, its populist, marketplace counterpart. In The Temple and t...

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Main Author:	Harrison, Henry Leslie
Format:	Thesis Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 2002.
Subjects:	Major English.
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