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| Title: |
Becoming Rafinesque: Market Society and Academic Reputation in the Early American Republic |
| Author: |
Durrill, Wayne K. |
| Appeared in: |
American nineteenth century history |
| Paging: | Volume 9 (2008) nr. 2 pages 123-140 |
| Year: |
2008-06 |
| Contents: |
This article focuses on how knowledge came to be valued in conflicting ways in the American Republic during the 1820s and 1830s - one based on a market model that considered knowledge to be a commodity for sale, and another that produced cultural value through social connections created in new academic institutions. Constantine Rafinesque, who taught at Transylvania University in Kentucky, and his research in the natural sciences serve as an example of the first sort of scholarship. His life also illustrates how a market society could lead to dandies, like Rafinesque himself, even in academia, and how that threatened both new middle class social proprieties and a system of clubby social relations that had come to dominate America's colleges and universities in the early nineteenth century. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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