Republic of Letters: The American Intellectual Community, 1776-1865

When William Ferguson, an English botanist and entomologist, called at the Detroit home of General Lewis Cass in June 1855, it was natural that during “ a very lengthened and interesting conversation,” the veteran American politician should mention “ the absurd books ” written by British travellers about the United States. “ They come over here,” said Cass, “ run over the country for three months, and think they understand it.” Such sentiments, of course, were commonplace by this time and Ferguson could not have been surprised by the frankness with which they were elucidated. Cass had reached political maturity during a period in which the British traveller became the focus for intense and hostile speculation in the United States. There was no more appropriate target for Jacksonian wrath, for example, than Mrs. Frances Trollope. Her Domestic Manners of the Americans, published in 1832 and widely extracted in American newspapers, helped give broad popular legitimacy to the bitter critical dialogues which pervaded the Anglo-American intellectual community after 1815. During the Jacksonian period, therefore, the British traveller could claim an important role in the development of Atlantic perceptions and attitudes.

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Translating Jakob von Uexküll — Reframing Umweltlehre as biosemiotics

Sign Systems Studies ◽

10.12697/sss.2009.37.1-2.10 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 37 (1/2) ◽

pp. 281-298 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Prisca Augustyn

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Community ◽

American Intellectual ◽

Anglo American ◽

Jakob Von Uexküll ◽

Von Uexküll

Thomas Sebeok attributed it to what he called the ‘wretched’ translation of Uexküll’s Theoretische Biologie (1920) that the notion of Umwelt did not reach the Anglo-American intellectual community much earlier. There is no doubt that making more of Uexküll’s Umweltlehre available in English will not only further the biosemiotic movement, but also fill a gap in the foundational theoretical canon of semiotics in general. The purpose of this paper is to address issues of terminology and theory translation between Uexküll’s Umweltlehre and current biosemiotics.

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5 The Growth of Anti-Israeli Sentiment in the American Intellectual Community: Some Cautionary Tales

Antisemitism in North America ◽

10.1163/9789004307148_006 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 81-93 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Community ◽

American Intellectual ◽

Cautionary Tales

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