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Revolutionary Writers : Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810.

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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,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Elliott, Emory
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 1986.
Subjects:
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
American literature > Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 > History and criticism.
American literature > 1783-1850 > History and criticism.
Authority in literature.
Literature and society > United States.
United States > Intellectual life > 18th century.
American literature.
American literature > Colonial period.
American literature > Revolutionary period (United States)
Intellectual life.
Literature and society.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of 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.

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