FIRESIDE CHAT: American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic

16mar7:00 pm8:00 pmFIRESIDE CHAT: American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early RepublicFree

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Fireside Chat with Dr. Daniel Diez Couch

American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic

March 16th, 2023 7:00 p.m. ET

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In the years between the independence of the colonies from Britain and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called “fragments.” American Fragments recovers this archive of the romantic period to raise a set of pressing questions about the relationship between aesthetic and national realities: What kind of artistic creation was a fragment?, And how and why did deliberately unfinished writing emerge alongside a country that was itself still unfinished?

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