Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810

by Emory Elliott

Book Overview

Elliott demonstrates how America's first men of letters--Timothy Dwight, Joel Barlow, Philip Frenan, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195029992
• ISBN13: 9780195029994
• Release Date: May 1982
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 118.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A very important study

This is a very important study of early American writing and should be sought out by anyone interested in the formation of American political and religious rhetoric.