Early American literature : a comparatist approach / A. Owen Aldridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aldridge, Alfred Owen, 1915-2005, author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783--History and criticism.

American literature--1783-1850--History and criticism.

Comparative literature.

United States--Intellectual life--18th century.

United States.

United States--Intellectual life--1783-1865.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1982]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A. Owen Aldridge shows that early American literature is not an isolated phenomenon, but one affected by the same influences which operated upon other literatures of the period.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ONE. Introduction

PART I. STYLE AND STRUCTURE

Introduction

TWO. Anne Bradstreet: Some Thoughts on the Tenth Muse

THREE. Edward Taylor and the American Baroque

PART II. THEME AND IDEOLOGY

FOUR. The Many Versions of Polly Baker: Deism and Human Rights

FIVE. Paine and Dickinson: Politics and Literature

SIX. The Concept of Ancients and Moderns in American Poetry of the Federal Period

SEVEN. The Apex of American Literary Nationalism

PART III. THE TWO AMERICAS: NORTH AND SOUTH

EIGHT. Thomas Paine and Latin American Independence

NINE. The Enlightenment in the Americas

TEN. Conclusion

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [299]-314.

ISBN:

9780691641805

0691641803

9780691614144

0691614148

9781400853090

1400853095

OCLC:

884013674