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The Temple And The Forum: American Museum And Cultural Authority In Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, And Whitman,Used
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The relationship between developing museum and literary cultures expressed in the works of four canonical American authorsThe rise of the museum as a cultural institution in 19thcentury America brought with it many contested notionsof what artifacts merited preservation or display and the role of museums in public life and the cultural marketplace. In The Temple and the Forum, Les Harrison excavates the shared concerns and practices of 19thcentury American museums and the literary productions of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman.The various representational strategies of museums suggested to these authors solutions to problems of literary and political representation. In probing the practices of three of the 19thcenturys most significant museumsCharles Wilson Peales Philadelphia Museum (1785?), P. T. Barnums American Museum (1841?), and the United States National Museum at the Smithsonian (1879present)Harrison identifies two dominant models in the struggle over what museums should be: the temple, an institution for the projection and protection of official culture, and the forum, its populist, marketplace counterpart.Merging historical research with textual analysis, Harrison examines manifestations of the temple and the forum in the works of these authorsand reconnects their works to the larger literary and cultural marketplace in which they circulated. What emerges is a veiled chapter in the history of American culture: the widening of literary and cultural distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate cultural forms, republicanism and democracy, and the literary and the popularthe temple and the forum.
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