"But Dickens and Emerson...found themselves unwanted."

"The  stage was now set for Southern romanticism to develop along clearly discernible lines. Ideas, associated with the movement in Europe and the North, were continuing to arrive -- notions matured by Carlyle, Hugo, Michelet, Dickens, Cooper, Irving, the Gothic revival architecture, the nature cult in painting, the evangelical strain in religion; but there was a preconceived plan for treating them. A cordon sanitaire against anything that might threaten the status quo surrounded the South. Romantic ideas must pause at the border and pass inspection before gaining right to entry. Carlyle met a warm welcome, as did Michelet, Uhland, and Mrs. Hemans. Cordiality greeted Irving and Cooper. But Dickens and Emerson, and other devotees of the cult of humanitarianism, found themselves unwanted."
"But Dickens and Emerson...found themselves unwanted."
-- Romanticism and Nationalism in the Old South, Rollin Osterweis, 1949, p. 55.