Not Quite Dead
“What new American ethic, what American vision of democracy has found expression on the pages of your novels, poetry, and periodicals?Ah. I see Vanity Fair is popular this year: Mr. Thackery’s spiteful vilification of ambition—especially in an ambitious woman.And in advance of his much-anticipated tour of America, I see that our bookstand is well stocked with the works of the author Charles Dickens, and his universe of contented servants and saintly wives. Whose poor bewail their starvation—but ...not their poverty. Whose servants resent their mistreatment—but not their servitude. Whose villains are bad schoolmasters—not the rulers of the country. And when the well born do go bad, which is seldom, it is because they are corrupted by persons of lesser rank. And of course the worst that can befall a woman is that she might lose her virtue—not that she might be worked to death.With the spirit of America so infected by submission to imperial authority, do we wonder that Mr. Washington Irving’s headless horseman is a Hessian—a European ghost haunting America?MoreLess
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