TY - BOOK ID - 73501421 TI - E pluribus unum : nineteenth-century American literature & the Constitutional paradox PY - 2005 SN - 0877459347 1587295938 9781587295935 9780877459347 PB - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Politics and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - Literature and society KW - Group identity in literature KW - United States. Constitution in literature KW - Cultural pluralism in literature. KW - Group identity in literature. KW - Individualism in literature. KW - Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - United States. KW - In literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:73501421 AB - ""Out of many, one."" But how do the many become one without sacrificing difference or autonomy? This problem was critical to both identity formation and state formation in late 18th- and 19th-century America. The premise of this book is that American writers of the time came to view the resolution of this central philosophical problem as no longer the exclusive province of legislative or judicial documents but capable of being addressed by literary texts as well. The project of E Pluribus Unum is twofold. Its first and underlying concern is the general philosophic problem of the one and the m ER -