| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Book Review

Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson: Joseph Dennie and The Port Folio, 1801–1812. By William C. Dowling. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. xvi, 127 pp. $24.95, isbn 1-57003-243-2.)

Between 1801 and 1811, under the editorial hand of Joseph Dennie (1768–1812), the Port Folio became the preeminent Federalist literary magazine in the middle Atlantic. It is the thesis of William C. Dowling's brief (four chapters, eighty-eight pages of text) and insightful new study that Dennie and the Port Folio also exemplified a decade-long process of Federalist disengagement from overt political opposition into a self-contained world of literary and aesthetic values—the "literary federalism" of the book's title. At first, as Dowling recounts, the Port Folio mounted a conventional defense of classical republican political values, only to discover that Thomas Jefferson and his allies had co-opted the country party language of agrarian virtue that lay at the core of the Federalist message, leaving Federalism without a natural political vocabulary to criticize the corruption of Jeffersonian America. . . .

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