03994oam 2200661I 450 991095379950332120251116161507.01-138-43663-11-315-83627-01-317-87038-710.4324/9781315836270 (CKB)2670000000602257(EBL)1991741(SSID)ssj0001560223(PQKBManifestationID)16192612(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001560223(PQKBWorkID)14824899(PQKB)10697626(MiAaPQ)EBC1991741(Au-PeEL)EBL1991741(CaPaEBR)ebr11035154(CaONFJC)MIL751997(OCoLC)905992999(OCoLC)905224088(FINmELB)ELB138287(EXLCZ)99267000000060225720180706d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican literature before 1880 /Robert Lawson-Peebles1st ed.Abingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2014.1 online resource (353 p.)Longman Literature In English SeriesFirst published 2003 by Pearson Education Limited.0-582-49522-9 1-336-20711-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Dedication; 1 The Problem of American Literature; The case of Paul De Man; James, Hawthorne, and the problem; The difficulty of American literary history; American exceptionalism; Songs of the earth's edge; 2 A ProtoAmerican Literature, 800 BC to 1611; Beyond Atlantis; Viking settlement; The oriental impact; The Columbian complex; To the Virginian voyage; 3 From Settlement to Revolution, 1607-1783; Virginia and the naming of New England; The varieties of writing in New EnglandThe rising empireThe fall of the British American empire; 4 The New Republic, 1776-1826; The age of Paine; Writing in a vacuum; Experiment and failure: Charles Brockden Brown; Transatlantic domesticity; Transatlantic difficulties: the early work of James Fenimore Cooper; 5 Growth and Identity, 1812-1865; Transatlantic trifles; Fenimore Cooper and the follies of democracy; Yankee attitudes; Explorations of identity: Hawthorne; Explorations of identity: the fiction of Melville; The nation in flux: Edgar Allan Poe; Disunion and Civil War; 6 Prospects for the Great Republic, 1865-1880Battle-pieces: the aftermath of warThe local and the universal; E Pluribus Unum; A complex fate; Chronology; General Bibliographies; General histories/handbooks of America and its literature; Definitions of America and its literature; Thematic studies; Period studies; Individual Authors; Index; Longman Literature in English SeriesAmerican Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the projection of images of the East onto an as-yet unrecognised West; the cultural consequences of Viking, Colombian, and then English migration to America; the growth and independence of the British American colonies; the key writers of the new Republic; and the development of the culture of the United States before and after the Civil War. It is intendeLongman Literature In English SeriesAmerican literatureHistory and criticismAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.810.9/001810.9Lawson-Peebles Robert.1873020MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910953799503321American literature before 18804482925UNINA