John Seelye 
Memory’s Nation [EPUB ebook] 
The Place of Plymouth Rock

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Long celebrated as a symbol of the country’s origins, Plymouth Rock no longer receives much national attention. In fact, historians now generally agree that the Pilgrims’ storied landing on the Rock never actually took place–the tradition having emerged more than a century after the arrival of the
Mayflower.
In
Memory’s Nation, however, John Seelye is not interested in the factual truth of the landing. He argues that what truly gives Plymouth Rock its significance is more than two centuries of oratorical, literary, and artistic celebrations of the Pilgrims’ arrival. Seelye traces how different political, religious, and social groups used the image of the Rock on behalf of their own specific causes and ideologies. Drawing on a wealth of speeches, paintings, and popular illustrations, he shows how Plymouth Rock changed in meaning over the years, beginning as a symbol of freedom evoked in patriotic sermons at the start of the Revolution and eventually becoming an icon of exclusion during the 1920s.
Originally published in 1998.
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John Seelye is Graduate Research Professor of American Literature at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He is author of a number of books in the field of American studies, including two volumes on the role of rivers in opening and permitting communications between the territories that became the United States.

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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 720 ● ISBN 9780807867044 ● 文件大小 7.4 MB ● 出版者 The University of North Carolina Press ● 市 Chapel Hill ● 国家 US ● 发布时间 2000 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 5507809 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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