UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA Los Angeles the Periodical Origins Of
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles The Periodical Origins of the American Self A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in English by Jordan M. Wingate 2019 © Copyright by Jordan M. Wingate 2019 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION The Periodical Origins of the American Self by Jordan M. Wingate Doctor of English University of California, Los Angeles, 2019 Professor Christopher J. Looby, Co-Chair and Professor Richard A. Yarborough, Co-Chair My project examines the historical ideas of American identity that developed in early U.S. periodicals, the most popular form of print in the 18th- and 19th-century U.S. In periodicals, I show, American identity was often imagined as a category distinct from nationality or U.S. citizenship, and expressed a host of local and contingent meanings. I look beyond the book form to historicize U.S. writers’ ideas of the relationship between the American, the U.S. government, and the nation it purportedly represented. ii The dissertation of Jordan Michael Wingate is approved. Carrie Leah Hyde Marissa Katherine Lopez Christopher J. Looby, Committee Co-Chair Richard A. Yarborough, Committee Co-Chair University of California, Los Angeles 2019 iii To Ivy, Vincent, and Elise mom, dad, and sister iv Table of Contents Introduction – “American” Literature Beyond Books – 1 Chapter 1 – Carey’s Museum and the Natural History of the American – 12 I. Native Nature in the American Museum – 20 II. White Columbia, Native America, and the Case of Tammany – 38 Chapter 2 – Americans, americanos, and Literary Exceptionalism, 1808-1832 – 61 I. Irving’s America, 1806-1826 – 64 II.
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