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Correspondence and American literature, 1770-1865 / by Elizabeth Hewitt.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0511264968
- ISBN: 9780511264962
- ISBN: 9780511265686
- ISBN: 0511265689
- ISBN: 0511263392
- ISBN: 9780511263392
- ISBN: 0511264208
- ISBN: 9780511264207
- ISBN: 1280749725
- ISBN: 9781280749728
- ISBN: 9780521842556
- ISBN: 0521842557
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 230 pages)
- Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-225) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : universal letter-writers -- 1. National letters -- 2. Emerson and Fuller's phenomenal letters -- 3. Melville's dead letters -- 4. Jacob's letters from nowhere -- 5. Dickinson's lyrical letters -- Conclusion : Whitman's universal letters. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. |
