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Revolutionary Writers [electronic resource]: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810

Author:
Elliott, Emory
Published:
New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated Feb. 1986
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334 p. 08.000 x 05.380 in.
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Annotation 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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9780195039955
0195039955 (Trade Paper)
Audience Notes:
College Audience Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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