Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature

by Jim Egan

Through the use of several iconic early American authors (Anne Bradstreet, James Kirkpatrick, Benjamin Franklin, and Edgar Allan Poe), Jim Egan's Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature explores the presence of "the East" in American writing.

The specter of the East haunted the literature of colonial British America and the new United States, from the earliest promotional pamphlets to the most aesthetically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814256279
• ISBN13: 9780814256275
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"