Article: Malcolm Kelsall. Jefferson and the Iconography of Romanticism: Folk, Land, Culture and the Romantic Nation.(Book Review)

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. 207. $39.95.

Malcolm Kelsall's transatlantic rendering of post-Revolutionary Jeffersonian culture is a welcome corrective to the periodizing and geographical fictions that continue to frame our critical commonplaces about nineteenth-century literature. Joining British and American culture, Neoclassical and romanticist traditions, Kelsall does for the nineteenth century what eighteenth-century historians have been doing for a decade--exploring an expanded notion of the Atlantic world that allows him to slip the yoke of increasingly outmoded nationalist models. Since a good part of Kelsall's concern is with the emerging ...

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