Revolutionary writers : literature and authority in the new republic, 1725-1810
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Revolutionary writers : literature and authority in the new republic, 1725-1810
Oxford University Press, 1986, c1982
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Bibliography: p. [303]-315
Includes index
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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 a vision of what America ought to be; and when the moral imperatives implicit in their writings were rejected by the vast number of their countrymen they became pioneers of another sort--the first to experience the alienation from mainstream American culture that would become the fate of nearly all serious writers who would follow.
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