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The literary quest for an American national character / Finn Pollard.
Van Pelt Library PS195.N35 P65 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pollard, Finn.
- Series:
- Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 9.
- Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- American literature--1783-1850--History and criticism.
- United States--Intellectual life--18th century.
- United States.
- Intellectual life.
- United States--Intellectual life--1783-1865.
- Group identity in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 257 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2009.
- Contents:
- A farmer asks a question and a scientist creates a model
- Hugh Henry Brackenridge and the dogma of balance
- The defining moment : Washington Irving and A history of New York
- The fragments : minor writers, c. 1810-1824
- The illusion ascendant : James Fenimore Cooper and the art of reconciliation
- Conclusion : A nice derangement of epitaphs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415963732
- 0415963737
- 9780203885918
- 0203885910
- OCLC:
- 219571441
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