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, 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 culture that would become the fate of nearly all ser…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-536497-2
- EAN: 9780195364972
- Produktnummer: 25433081
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1986
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 15'522 KB
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