Correspondence and American Literature, 1770-1865
Elizabeth Hewitt argues that many canonical American authors, including Jefferson, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, turned to letter-writing as an idealized genre through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. Hewitt maintains that, although correspondence is generally only conceived as a biographical archive, it must instead be understood as a significant genre through which these early authors made sense of social and political relations in the new nation.
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Correspondence and American Literature, 1770-1865
Elizabeth Hewitt argues that many canonical American authors, including Jefferson, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, turned to letter-writing as an idealized genre through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. Hewitt maintains that, although correspondence is generally only conceived as a biographical archive, it must instead be understood as a significant genre through which these early authors made sense of social and political relations in the new nation.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780521842556 |
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Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Publication date: | 11/25/2004 |
Series: | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture , #146 |
Pages: | 242 |
Product dimensions: | 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.67(d) |
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