The Oxford Handbook of Early American LiteratureKevin J. Hayes Oxford University Press, 06.02.2008 - 656 Seiten The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature is a major new reference work that provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on early American literature. Comprised of twenty-seven chapters written by experts in their fields, this work presents an authoritative, in-depth, and up-to-date assessment of a crucial area within literary studies. Organized primarily in terms of genre, the chapters include original research on key concepts, as well as analysis of interesting texts from throughout colonial America. Separate chapters are devoted to literary genres of great importance at the time of their composition that have been neglected in recent decades, such as histories, promotion literature, and scientific writing. New interpretations are offered on the works of Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards and Dr. Alexander Hamilton while lesser known figures are also brought to light. Newly vital areas like print culture and natural history are given full treatment. As with other Oxford Handbooks, the contributors cover the field in a comprehensive yet accessible way that is suitable for those wishing to gain a good working knowledge of an area of study and where it's headed. |
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... Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer 547 David J. Carlson 25. History as Literature 569 Ed White 26. The Place of Natural History in Early American Literature 593 Kevin J. Hayes Index 613 This page intentionally left blank ...
... Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer 547 David J. Carlson 25. History as Literature 569 Ed White 26. The Place of Natural History in Early American Literature 593 Kevin J. Hayes Index 613 This page intentionally left blank ...
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... America (2005). He is currently writing about Charles Brockden Brown's utopian historical sketches and the formation of Crèvecoeur's English and French letters. This page intentionally left blank the oxford handbook of EARLY contributors ...
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... Crèvecoeur. Franklin was, in Hazlitt's words, “a great experimental philosopher, a consummate politician, and a paragon of common sense.” Edwards was “one of the acutest, most powerful, and, of all reasoners, the most conscientious and ...
... Crèvecoeur. Franklin was, in Hazlitt's words, “a great experimental philosopher, a consummate politician, and a paragon of common sense.” Edwards was “one of the acutest, most powerful, and, of all reasoners, the most conscientious and ...
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... devoted to major authors: Crèvecoeur, Edwards, Franklin, Hamilton, and Smith. Other chapters are devoted to different literary genres: autobiography, captivity narratives, diaries, novels, 16 the oxford handbook of early american ...
... devoted to major authors: Crèvecoeur, Edwards, Franklin, Hamilton, and Smith. Other chapters are devoted to different literary genres: autobiography, captivity narratives, diaries, novels, 16 the oxford handbook of early american ...
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Inhalt
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Devotional Literature | 91 |
The Augustan Age in America | 187 |
Contexts of Reading | 299 |
Expressions of Individuality | 369 |
The Revolutionary Era | 451 |
Late EighteenthCentury Prose | 525 |
Index | 613 |
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