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Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810
Revolutionary Writers Literature and Authority in the New Republic 17251810
Author: Emory Elliott
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195039955
ISBN-10: 0195039955
Publication Date: 2/27/1986
Pages: 334
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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