03345nam 2200697 450 991082213620332120230213211608.01-280-60520-097866106052000-19-536497-X(CKB)1000000000404570(EBL)430814(OCoLC)609831361(SSID)ssj0000308412(PQKBManifestationID)12071610(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000308412(PQKBWorkID)10258788(PQKB)10302413(MiAaPQ)EBC430814(Au-PeEL)EBL430814(CaPaEBR)ebr11303551(CaONFJC)MIL60520(EXLCZ)99100000000040457020161202h19861982 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRevolutionary writers literature and authority in the New Republic,1725-1810 /Emory ElliottNew York, New York :Oxford University Press,1986.©19821 online resource (337 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-503995-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexElliott 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 culColonies in literatureAmerican literatureColonial period, ca. 1600-1775History and criticismAmerican literatureRevolutionary period, 1775-1783History and criticismLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory18th centuryAmerican literature1783-1850History and criticismAuthority in literatureUnited StatesIntellectual life18th centuryUnited StatesIntellectual life1783-1865Colonies in literature.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Authority in literature.810/.9/001Elliott Emory1942-2009,485248MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822136203321Revolutionary writers3974184UNINA