Authority, Autonomy, and Representation in American Literature, 1776-1865

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From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, a familiar scene appears and reappears in American literature: a speaker stands before a crowd of men and women, attempting to mitigate their natural suspicions in order to form a body of federated wills. In this important study of the relationship of lit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Patterson, Mark R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Representative government and representation in literature.
Politics and literature.
Autonomy in literature.
Authority in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Autonomie dans la litterature.
Autorite dans la litterature.
Politique et litterature > États-Unis.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Gouvernement representatif dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 1783-1850 > Histoire et critique.
Politics and literature > United States.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Revolution, 1775-1783 > History and criticism.
American literature > 1783-1850 > History and criticism.
United States.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Literature and the revolution.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, a familiar scene appears and reappears in American literature: a speaker stands before a crowd of men and women, attempting to mitigate their natural suspicions in order to form a body of federated wills. In this important study of the relationship of literature and politics, Mark Patterson argues that this scene restates political issues in literary terms and embodies the essential problems of American democracy facing both politicians and writers: What is autonomy? How does representation work? Where does true authority lie? Beginning with the.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9781400859627

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