Oriental shadows : the presence of the East in early American literature /
"Through the use of several iconic early American authors (Anne Bradstreet, James Kirkpatrick, Benjamin Franklin, and Edgar Allan Poe), James Egan's Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature explores the presence of "the East" in American writing. Th...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2011]
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Series: | Transoceanic studies.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. From Bradstreet to Poe
- The colonial body travels East in Anne Bradstreet's poetry
- How West becomes East in colonial Georgia poetry
- Humanity's eastern home in Benjamin Franklin's Oriental tales
- Edgar Allan Poe's Oriental America
- Epilogue.