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Correspondence and American literature, 1770-1865 /
Elizabeth Hewitt uncovers the centrality of letter-writing to antebellum American literature. She argues that many canonical American authors, including Jefferson, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, turned to the epistolary form as an idealised genre with which to consider the challenges of A...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
146. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Elizabeth Hewitt uncovers the centrality of letter-writing to antebellum American literature. She argues that many canonical American authors, including Jefferson, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, turned to the epistolary form as an idealised genre with which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 230 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-225) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511264968 9780511264962 9780511265686 0511265689 0511263392 9780511263392 0511264208 9780511264207 1280749725 9781280749728 9780521842556 0521842557 |