| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America. By Elisa Tamarkin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xxxiv, 400 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-226-78944-6.)
"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing," wrote Archilochus. This book is vulpine regarding its sources, which range across a variety of genres, from paintings to student journals. It is, however, ultimately hedgehogish. There is one big idea in this book, namely that antebellum American sensibilities were profoundly shaped by Anglophilia, which took the form of a turning away from the idealistic abstractions of revolutionary discourse and toward a very English embrace of the traditional, the ritual, the local, and the particular.	1
The book is divided into four sections, each an extended meditation on a very particular topic. These include the enormous popularity of the Prince of Wales in the United States at the brink of the Civil War; a nostalgia among antebellum writers for late colonial society; the adoption of postures of imperial deference by African American abolitionists while visiting England; and the emergence of a collegiate culture, best exemplified at Harvard College, shaped by a studied indifference to the external world and a concomitant apotheosis of the college itself.	. . .

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