Early American Literature: A Comparatist Approach

by Alfred Owen Aldridge

Overview

A. Owen Aldridge shows that early American literature is not an isolated phenomenon, but one affected by the same influences which operated upon other literatures of the period.

Originally published in 1982.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691641805
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	04/19/2016
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library , #691
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

• FrontMatter, pg. i
• CONTENTS, pg. vii
• PREFACE, pg. ix
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi
• ONE. Introduction, pg. 1
• Introduction, pg. 21
• TWO. Anne Bradstreet: Some Thoughts on the Tenth Muse, pg. 25
• THREE. Edward Taylor and the American Baroque, pg. 53
• Introduction, pg. 89
• FOUR. The Many Versions of Polly Baker: Deism and Human Rights, pg. 97
• FIVE. Paine and Dickinson: Politics and Literature, pg. 131
• SIX. The Concept of Ancients and Moderns in American Poetry of the Federal Period, pg. 158
• SEVEN. The Apex of American Literary Nationalism, pg. 186
• Introduction, pg. 209
• EIGHT. Thomas Paine and Latin American Independence, pg. 215
• NINE. The Enlightenment in the Americas, pg. 261
• TEN. Conclusion, pg. 295
• BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 299
• INDEX, pg. 315