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Correspondence and American literature, 1770-1865

Summary: 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: 0521842557
ISBN: 9780521842556
ISBN: 9781280749728
ISBN: 1280749725
ISBN: 9780511264207
ISBN: 0511264208
ISBN: 9780511263392
ISBN: 0511263392
ISBN: 0511265689
ISBN: 9780511265686
ISBN: 9780511264962
ISBN: 0511264968
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 230 pages)
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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.