Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810
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Elliott demonstrates how America's first men of letters--Timothy Dwight, Joel Barlow, Philip Freneau, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and Charles Brockden Brown--sought to make individual genius in literature express the collective genius of the American people. Without literary precedent to aid them, Elliott argues, these writers attempted to convey a vision of what America ought to be; and when the moral imperatives implicit in their writings were rejected...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0195039955
ISBN13:9780195039955
Release Date:February 1986
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:334 Pages
Weight:0.94 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"
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A very important study
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
This is a very important study of early American writing and should be sought out by anyone interested in the formation of American political and religious rhetoric.
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