George Washington Slept Here: Colonial Revivals and American Culture, 1876–1986

Karal Ann Marling

Published by Harvard University Press 1988

George Washington Slept Here

Colonial Revivals and American Culture, 1876–1986

Karal Ann Marling

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674423084

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Marling Karal Ann :

Karal Ann Marling is Professor of Art History at the University of Minnesota.

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Combining historical analysis with art history and cultural criticism, Marling has provided a lively new view of a hero turned into an icon.

This book, written by an astute professor of American studies and art history at the University of Minnesota, is intriguing because it also concerns the role of that on-again, off-again colonial revival in popular culture from 1876 until the present. Karal Ann Marling's discussion demonstrates her skill at interweaving words and images, books and the bizarre detritus from our commercialization of the past that stand (or perhaps languish) in need of explication...Ms. Marling has salvaged quantities of consequential colonial ephemera. These are the accretions which simultaneously embellish yet enshroud our national myths; and she has sandblasted those hollow shrines while preserving all the rubble and dust for our delectation. The result is a lively exposé whose persuasiveness owes much to the banality, snobbery and ubiquity of the treasures turned up by Ms. Marling...Our overall perception of the complex functions filled by American history in popular culture is exuberantly enhanced in George Washington Slept Here.

Karal Ann Marling [has] pulled together a rollicking read. George Washington Slept Here is not a book about beds, historic sites or locales that lay claim to recognition because of our grand father's peregrinations--nothing so straightforward or stodgy. It is instead an erudite delving into the significance of all kinds of trivia created, manufactured, produced--even sung--about America's first president...Marling holds all the cards--she knows her historical context, she has the images and messages at her fingertips, and she has an almost unerring sense of the ridiculous, providing a very witty interpretation of a nostalgia that pervades American life.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
1. TWO PRAYERS IN THE SNOW Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. TEATIME AT VALLEY FORGE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. COLONIAL HISTORY DOMESTICATED Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4. ARCHITECTURE, ANCESTRY, AND HIGH SOCIETY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
5. GEORGE WASHINGTON HUMANIZED Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
6. THE COLONIAL REVIVAL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
7. WASHINGTONIANA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
8. NEOCOLONIAL POLITICS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
9. HEROES, HISTORY, AND MODERN CELEBRITIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
10. HERBERT HOOVER AND THE CHERRY TREE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
11. POPULAR HISTORY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
12. A GEORGE WASHINGTON FOR ALL OCCASIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
CREDITS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	441
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447

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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 453
Illustrations
- Other: illustrations
Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; ART / Popular Culture; HISTORY / United States / General; Popular culture -- United States.; Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Influence.

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674423084

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1988
ISBN: 9780674422759