3 It is the cultural representation of this ambivalence of modern society that is explored in this book. [CDATA[ 342-3. Hearing depends upon some degree of selection of significant from background noise for sense to be made; touching reminds us of the fragility of flesh, and hence of our own flesh. Even in the underrepresented branch of Third World English studies, one is likely to find discussions of race and colonialism, but not the 'nation' as such. . An Englishman is indeed a type within the whole of humanity. 28 Compare Emerson: 'With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. 'Method* This type of formulation of the problem, with its insistence on margins as against centres, on difference as a prior condition of identity, can quickly be labelled 'post-structuralist' in its inspiration. . C. Cattaneo, 'Delia conquista d'Inghilterra pei Normanni' [1839], Scritti Storici e Geografici (Bari: Laterza, 1957), vol. Hannah and Stanley Mitchell (Boston: Beacon Press, 1963), p. 70 (Lukacs' emphasis). The split between the eastern and western [empires] was inevitable, and attempts at founding an empire in Gaul, in the third century AD, did not succeed either. In several countries national productivity had apparently been rising, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the populist period of import substitution Irresistible romance 73 industrialization during the Second World War. Whitman's disinclination for main verbs may be interpreted in the same way: he seeks to minimize the importance of agency, while simultaneously asserting, as we have seen, the conquering powers of the American language. '37 Clearly, as Benjamin uses it, information is inseparable from propaganda it is that news which we receive from all parts of the globe that is already 'shot through with explanations'. }, 153 see Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978), vol. 9 This (apparent?) He had, of course, the paradigm of Carlylean anti-self-consciousness to look to, with its bland assumption about other places as territories with no previous owners or independent cultures: Must the indomitable millions, full of old Saxon energy and fire, lie cooped-up in this Western Nook, choking one another, as in a Blackhole of Calcutta, while a whole fertile untenanted Earth, desolate for want of the ploughshare, cries: Come and till me, come and reap me?15 Carlyle's system relies upon leaders, self-evidently superior beings before whom we will willingly prostrate ourselves in this passage outwards; Whitman, the spokesman of an egalitarian culture, does away with the leaders but preserves the spirit of a system whose logical dependence upon some sort of hierarchy (for its political implementation) yet remains clear. Where some readers have seen 'the ebb and flow and interplay of vital emotion', others, like Knut Hamsun, have sensed only 'a pretentious game with savage words' (Critical Heritage, pp. It seems difficult, in fact, to talk of the books' commonality when the projects they advocate are so varied, ranging from racism to abolitionism, from nostalgia to modernization, from free trade to protectionism. He also came to admit the existence of divisions within an American society threatening by 1871 to remain 'materialistic and vulgar' (PW, p. 369), and certainly seeming to require that a choice be made about who is after all most representative and worthy of nurture now the 'aggregate' of 'middling property owners' (p. 339). This was a historiographical introduction, published in Paris in 1840 to the Recit des Temps Merovingiens (Paris: Furne, 1840), which had originally been published as Nouvelles Lettres sur I'Histoire de France (18337). some horrid, alien nature. Nationalism, in any of its numerous forms, has never been just parochial, despite the manner in which, for example, from the 1940s to the 1960s it provided a language of hostile responses to 116 Sneja Gunew 'international' modernism . . In his preface to The House of Seven Gables (1851), Hawthorne says that: 'When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume, had he professed to be writing a Novel.' Aside from anthropological characteristics, there are such things as reason, justice, the true, and the beautiful, which are the same for all. In what ways does the principle of nationality differ from that of races? A. Thierry, Considerations on the History of France, p. 12. 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