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Revolutionary writers : literature and authority in the new republic, 1725-1810 /
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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1986.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 by the vast number of their countrymen they became pioneers of another sort--the first to experience the alienation from mainstream American cul. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (324 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-315) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195364972 019536497X 1280605200 9781280605208 9786610605200 6610605203 |