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...specialist (and to many specialists) almost everything Miller has to say about the life of the popular intellect in the first half of the nineteenth century will be new. No one else has ever approached the American past quite as Miller did, and his method stands in greater relief in this fragment than in his other books, largely because so much of the conventional history is familiar to us. Standard histories rarely discuss--rarely mention--the events and personalities Miller so vividly presents to us: the Great Awakening of 1857-58, the Reverend Charles Grandison Finney's revivals, the codifying...
More and more in the nineteenth century, this life, as Miller reveals it, grew fatalistically preoccupied with the question of its own national identity. As he traces "the devious paths through which America made its way out of the eighteenth century into the nineteenth," it becomes clear that these are mostly paths of conflict. The two complete sections, "The Evangelical Basis" and "The Legal Mentality", describe endless conflict between emotional and intellectual factions at all levels of society...
...especially the moral side of American nationalism which Miller rediscovers for us, the side which the nineteenth century called "sublime." Miller devoted many lectures in English 274 to an analysis of the "sublime" in all its phases--moral, romantic, intellectual, egotistical. The word was so complex that capsule definition was impossible, though once to uncomprehending graduate students he explained that "Sandy Koufax is sublime; Don Drysdale is only beautiful." He had planned an introductory chapter on the sublime, but as it stands we can still appreciate something of the importance of the word from its role in the first...
...room for them." Even so, the course remains the largest in the Summer School. Coming close in terms of size are to English courses. There are 140 people enrolled in English S-164. "The Modern British Novel: Conrad to Virginia Woolf"; and 122 in English S-151, "The Nineteenth-Century Novel...
Social Sciences S-118: An absolutely sure thing. Louis Hartz is one of Harvard's best lecturers. His course deals with "Democratic Theory and Its Critics," and the reading list can't be beat. Hartz upper-level government course on "Nineteenth-Century Political Thought" is just as good...