Making America, Making American Literature: Franklin to CooperA. Robert Lee, W. M. Verhoeven Rodopi, 1996 - 360 Seiten If 1776 heralds America's Birth of the Nation, so, too, it witnesses the rise of a matching, and overlapping, American Literature. For between the 1770s and the 1820s American writing moves on from the ancestral Puritanism of New England and Virginia - though not, as yet, into the American Renaissance so strikingly called for by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Even so, the concourse of voices which arise in this period, that is between (and including) Benjamin Franklin and James Fenimore Cooper, mark both a key transitional literary generation and yet one all too easily passed over in its own imaginative right. This collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays seeks to establish new bearings, a revision of one of the key political and literary eras in American culture. Not only are Franklin and Cooper themselves carefully re-evaluated in the making of America's new literary republic, but figures like Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Philip Frencau, William Cullen Bryant, the other Alexander Hamilton, and the playwrights Royall Tyler and William Dunlop. Other essays take a more inclusive perspective, whether American epistolary fiction, a first generation of American women-authored fiction, the public discourse of The Federalist Papers, the rise of the American periodical, or the founding African-American generation of Phillis Wheatley. What unites all the essays is the common assumption that the making of America was as much a matter of creating its national literature; as the making of American literature was a matter of shaping a national identity. |
Inhalt
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The Old in the New Writing | 59 |
Uses of the Future | 77 |
Periodicals and the Development of an American | 93 |
Representation and Resistance | 123 |
Ancient and Modern in the Writings | 183 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American literary American Literature argued Astor Astoria become Benjamin Franklin Boston British Brom Bryant Carwin century character Charles Brockden Brown Charlotte Temple citizens Clarissa Colden colonial Constitution contrast Coquette critical culture David discourse drama Dunlap Early American Edwards's eighteenth-century elite Eliza England English epistolary novel essay Federalist Papers fiction Foster future Hamilton Hope Leslie ideological imagination Irving's James Fenimore Cooper Jane Talbot Jefferson John Jonathan Edwards Journals language letter Littlepage Magawisca Magazine Malebranche marriage mind moral narrative native nature Philadelphia Philip Freneau play poem poet poetry political post-colonial Power of Sympathy published Puritan racial readers reading republic republican Review Revolution revolutionary rhetorical Sanford scene seduction sense sentimental slave social imaginary society spirit story theatre things Thomas trade tradition truth Tyler voice Washington Irving Weems Wheatley Wieland William William Hill Brown women words writing York
Beliebte Passagen
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