Poisoned Pens: The Anglo-American Relationship and the Paper War Symbiosis 6.1 45-68
Author: Jennifer Clark
Pages: 29
This micro-ebook, "Poisoned Pens: The Anglo-American Relationship and the Paper War" by Jennifer Clark, offers an in-depth exploration of the literary and political skirmishes between Britain and the United States in the early 19th century. Originally published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, this essay delves into the "Paper War" of mutual recriminations and misunderstandings that emerged after the American Revolution. Clark meticulously analyses the cultural and intellectual exchanges that defined this period, providing valuable insights for scholars of transatlantic studies, American history, and literary criticism.
Author: Jennifer Clark
Pages: 29
This micro-ebook, "Poisoned Pens: The Anglo-American Relationship and the Paper War" by Jennifer Clark, offers an in-depth exploration of the literary and political skirmishes between Britain and the United States in the early 19th century. Originally published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, this essay delves into the "Paper War" of mutual recriminations and misunderstandings that emerged after the American Revolution. Clark meticulously analyses the cultural and intellectual exchanges that defined this period, providing valuable insights for scholars of transatlantic studies, American history, and literary criticism.
Author: Jennifer Clark
Pages: 29
This micro-ebook, "Poisoned Pens: The Anglo-American Relationship and the Paper War" by Jennifer Clark, offers an in-depth exploration of the literary and political skirmishes between Britain and the United States in the early 19th century. Originally published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, this essay delves into the "Paper War" of mutual recriminations and misunderstandings that emerged after the American Revolution. Clark meticulously analyses the cultural and intellectual exchanges that defined this period, providing valuable insights for scholars of transatlantic studies, American history, and literary criticism.
 "Beginning in earnest in 1810 with the publication of Charles Jared Ingersoll’s Inchiquin, The Jesuit’s Letters and reaching something of a crescendo between 1815 and 1819, the Paper War was largely over by 1834 when Grant Thorburn’s far less significant Men and Manners in Britain appeared. These dates, however, merely periodise the years of most concentrated activity of mutual recrimination in literature and the political press. Both English criticism of the United States and American resentment were not new. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, however, these views assumed a purposeful shape and momentum through the participation of the North American Review and the Port Folio as well as major public figures such as New York writer, James Kirke Paulding; Philadelphia lawyer, Charles Jared Ingersoll; New England Divine, Timothy Dwight; and journalist and academic, Robert Walsh." |
