In Modernity and Its Other Robert Woods Sayre examines eighteenth-century North America through discussion of texts drawn from the period. He focuses on this unique historical moment when early capitalist civilization (modernity) in colonial societies, especially the British, interacted closely with Indigenous communities (the "Other") before the balance of power shifted definitively toward the colonizers. Sayre considers a variety of French perspectives as a counterpoint to the Anglo-American lens, including J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and Philip Freneau, as well as both Anglo-American and French or French Canadian travelers in "Indian territory," including William Bartram, Jonathan Carver, John Lawson, Alexander Mackenzie, Baron de Lahontan, Pierre Charlevoix, and Jean-Baptiste Trudeau. Modernity and Its Other is an important addition to any North American historian's bookshelf, for it brings together the social history of the European colonies and the ethnohistory of the American Indian peoples who interacted with the colonizers.
Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the unity that underlies the extraordinary diversity of romanticism from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. After critiquing previous conceptions of romanticism and discussing its first European manifestations, Löwy and Sayre propose a typology of the sociopolitical positions held by romantic writers-from “restitutionist” to various revolutionary/utopian forms. In subsequent chapters, they give extended treatment to writers as diverse as Coleridge and Ruskin, Charles Peguy, Ernst Bloch and Christa Wolf. Among other topics, they discuss the complex relationship between Marxism and romanticism before closing with a reflection on more contemporary manifestations of romanticism (for example, surrealism, the events of May 1968, and the ecological movement) as well as its future. Students and scholars of literature, humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies will be interested in this elegant and thoroughly original book.
Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature examines the deep connections between the romantic rebellion against modernity and ecological concern with modern threats to nature. The chapters deal with expressions of romantic culture from a wide variety of different areas: travel writing, painting, utopian vision, cultural studies, political philosophy, and activist socio-political writing. The authors discuss a highly diverse group of figures - William Bartram, Thomas Cole, William Morris, Walter Benjamin, Raymond Williams, and Naomi Klein - from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. They are rooted individually in English, American, and German cultures, but share a common perspective: the romantic protest against modern bourgeois civilisation and its destruction of the natural environment. Although a rich ecocritical literature has developed since the 1990s, particularly in the United States and Britain, that addresses many aspects of ecology and its intersection with romanticism, they almost exclusively focus on literature, and define romanticism as a limited literary period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This study is one of the first to suggest a much broader view of the romantic relation to ecological discourse and representation, covering a range of cultural creations and viewing romanticism as a cultural critique, or protest against capitalist-industrialist modernity in the name of past, pre-modern, or pre-capitalist values. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecology, romanticism, and the history of capitalism.
Thoreau turned toward Indians in his writing as well as in his life, and this book traces the long and arduous process by which his ideas about Indians evolved from savagist stereotypes to attitudes of greater originality. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Are You a "Whosoever?" Whosoevers are people destined to live forever in a place beyond their wildest expectations. Whosoevers are becoming more difficult to identify today due their being mocked and persecuted by Hollywood, the mainstream media, and most of our schools and universities. However, the rewards for achieving "whosoever status" are well worth looking into! How can you become a "whosoever"? Just believe! (John 3:16) "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." Whosoevers are believers in God, the Creator of the universe, and Jesus Christ His one and only Son who exchanged His righteous for our sinfulness. Jesus paid the price for all our sins, past, present, and future. The game of life is extremely complicated and doomed to failure if you don't know all the rules. The Bible is God's use and care manual and is His means used to communicate with us today. In the past, God communicated through various prophets. Now, we have God's Word, the Bible, to help us understand and know what pleases our creator. God says that it is impossible to please Him without faith and that faith comes from hearing His Word, the Bible. Today, many people know that God hates "idol worship." However, many peoples don't realize that anything that you put in front of God, for example, family, friends, possessions, or power, is idol worship. In God's eyes, hating anyone is equivalent to murder and lust for anyone, but your spouse is adultery. That is why we need to study the Bible to help us understand God's character! Everyone sins and falls short of God's standard. (Romans 3:10""12) "There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one." This is why everyone needs a Savior! (Proverbs 14:12) "There is a way that seems right to man but in the end it leads to death." At the opposite end of the believing spectrum are the "never God" people. "Never God" people not only deny God their Creator and Jesus's sacrifice on the cross but also mock believers. The Apostle John called those who deny Jesus "antichrists." Unbelievers or antichrists will also live forever, but in an extremely hot environment. Instead of joy, there will be weeping and a gnashing of teeth. The fire in hell will burn eternally, but the occupants will never die. (John 8:31""32) "To the Jews who has believed him, Jesus said, 'If you hold to my teachings, you are my disciples. Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.
Robert F. Sayre's The Examined Self is a seminal work in the study of American autobiography. Its republication is a fitting initial effort in the new Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography series, under the general editorship of William L. Andrews, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. Sayre's book, the first full scholarly study of American autobiography, was also the first to give full recognition to the rich potential of this American literary tradition. He studies the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin, Henry James, and Henry Adams not only in the context of American history and culture, but also against the background of the tradition of autobiography extending back to St. Augustine.
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