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Correspondence and American Literature, 1770-1865

Correspondence and American Literature, 1770-1865

Hewitt, Elizabeth

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 146

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521842557
ISBN13: 9780521842556
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 25 2004
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.07 Depth: 9.17
Language: English
Elizabeth Hewitt argues that many canonical American authors, including Jefferson, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, turned to letter-writing as an idealized genre through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. Hewitt maintains that, although correspondence is generally only conceived as a biographical archive, it must instead be understood as a significant genre through which these early authors made sense of social and political relations in the new nation.

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