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Revolutionary writers : literature and authority in the New Republic,1725-1810 / Emory Elliott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elliott, Emory, 1942-2009, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colonies in literature.
- American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783--History and criticism.
- Literature and society--United States--History--18th century.
- Literature and society.
- American literature--1783-1850--History and criticism.
- Authority in literature.
- United States--Intellectual life--18th century.
- United States.
- United States--Intellectual life--1783-1865.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-60520-0
- 9786610605200
- 0-19-536497-X
- OCLC:
- 609831361
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