Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic 1725-1810 - Softcover

Elliott, Emory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195039955 ISBN 13: 9780195039955

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1986

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Book by Elliott Emory

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This is a fine book, well organized, well argued, and well written. (Harry S. Mooney, Jr., University of Pittsburgh)

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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 serious writers who would follow.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0195039955
• ISBN 13: 9780195039955
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 342