Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic 1725-1810

di Emory Elliott (Autore)

Oxford University Press Inc, 1986

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.

• Autore: Emory Elliott
• Editore: Oxford University Press Inc
• Anno: 1986
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 334 p.
• Dimensioni: 203 x 137 mm
• Peso: 296 gr.
• EAN: 9780195039955

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