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Revolutionary Writers

Literature and Authority in the New Republic 1725-1810

Emory Elliott author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:1st May '86

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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.

This is a fine book, well organized, well argued, and well written. * Harry S. Mooney, Jr., University of Pittsburgh *

ISBN: 9780195039955

Dimensions: 203mm x 137mm x 19mm

Weight: 296g

334 pages