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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450574803321

Autore

Elliott Emory <1942-2009, >

Titolo

Revolutionary writers : literature and authority in the New Republic,1725-1810 / / Emory Elliott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1986

©1982

ISBN

1-280-60520-0

9786610605200

0-19-536497-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

810/.9/001

Soggetti

Colonies in literature

American literature - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - History and criticism

American literature - Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 - History and criticism

Literature and society - United States - History - 18th century

American literature - 1783-1850 - History and criticism

Authority in literature

Electronic books.

United States Intellectual life 18th century

United States Intellectual life 1783-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; I: The Crisis of Authority in the Revolutionary Age; II: Timothy Dwight: Pastor, Poet, and Politics; III: Joel Barlow: Innocence and Experience Abroad; IV: Philip Freneau: Poetry of Social Commitment; V: Hugh Henry Brackenridge: The Regenerative Power of American Humor; VI: Charles Brockden Brown: The Burden of the Past; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 cul