Revolutionary Writers : Literature and Authority in the New Republic 1725-1810 Paperback / softback
by Emory Elliott
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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 vastnumber 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 whowould follow.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:01/05/1986
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- ISBN:9780195039955
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:01/05/1986
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- ISBN:9780195039955