Revolutionary writers : literature and authority in the New Republic,1725-1810 / / Emory Elliott
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| Autore: |
Elliott Emory <1942-2009, >
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| Titolo: |
Revolutionary writers : literature and authority in the New Republic,1725-1810 / / Emory Elliott
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1986 |
| ©1982 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810/.9/001 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Intellectual life 18th century |
| United States Intellectual life 1783-1865 | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Revolutionary writers |
| ISBN: | 1-280-60520-0 |
| 9786610605200 | |
| 0-19-536497-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784844303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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