Literature, American style : the originality of imitation in the early Republic /

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Literature, American Style finds early U.S. authors self-consciously imitating European literary forms even as they claimed radical originality. The notion of style helped them manage this peculiar contradiction. It was their American use of style, they claimed, that marked their departure from lite...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tawil, Ezra F., 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Subjects:
1700-1850
American literature > 1783-1850 > History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Nationalism and literature > United States.
English language > United States > Orthography and spelling > History > 18th century.
English language > United States > Style.
Littérature américaine > 1783-1850 > Histoire et critique.
Nationalisme et littérature > États-Unis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
English language > Orthography and spelling
English language > Style
National characteristics, American, in literature
Nationalism and literature
Literarischer Stil
Literatur
Nationenbildung
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction. Style and the Cisatlantic; Chapter 1. To Form a More Perfect Language: Noah Webster's American-Style English; Chapter 2. Transatlantic Correspondences: Crèvecoeur and the Incorrect Style; Chapter 3. "New Forms of Sublimity": Charles Brockden Brown and the Irregular Style; Chapter 4. "Homespun Habits": Seduction, Sentiment, and the Artless Style; Coda. Stock and Soil; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments.

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