Talk:American literary nationalism

Good start

I think this is a good start but I'd like to see more of Cooper, especially near the beginning of the article. Perhaps some comparisons to the Young America movement or the roles of the Knickerbocker Group as well. Then, more on Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Whitman. Emerson in particular. His speech/essay "The American Scholar" is a driving factor in this movement, enough that Dr. Holmes famously called it the country's intellectual Declaration of Independence. Sorry, mostly thinking aloud (while typing?). I do think this article is an important contribution. --Midnightdreary (talk) 14:52, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

I'm also happy to see this article pop up. I think it fills an important gap on Wikipedia. I would personally appreciate any help you can lend in broadening the article's coverage. --Dugan Murphy (talk) 17:51, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

English Writers

These demands were also couched in a perceived contrast between the English author as a "well-off amateur writer...who writes in his spare time for personal amusement" and the American as a "professional author, writing out of economic necessity."

Whatever may have been their deluded self-serving presumptions back then, it's worth pointing out that this view of British Authors is profoundly demented, and never has been true, from De Foe to Dr. Johnson to Antony Trollope to Peter Cheyney,

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

Claverhouse (talk) 03:30, 4 September 2023 (UTC)