Correspondence and American Literature, 1770-1865 [electronic resource].

• Tác giả: Elizabeth Hewitt
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0511264207
• ISBN-13: 978-0521842556
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 810 American literature in English
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Văn học
• ID: 70890
• Chủ đề: 1. American literature; 2. Electronic books

Tóm tắt

Elizabeth Hewitt uncovers the centrality of letter-writing to antebellum American literature. She argues that many canonical American authors, including Jefferson, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, turned to the epistolary form as an idealised genre with which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War.