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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... an important truth: there is an inextricable relationship between land and literature. Works produced by authors who have spent time in North America reflect the physical 8 the oxford handbook of early american literature.
... an important truth: there is an inextricable relationship between land and literature. Works produced by authors who have spent time in North America reflect the physical 8 the oxford handbook of early american literature.
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... land on their writings. The work's chronological organization follows “as nearly as practicable the date of birth of each individual” (Duyckinck and Duyckinck 1855, 1: vi). The Duyckincks violate this stated organizational scheme within ...
... land on their writings. The work's chronological organization follows “as nearly as practicable the date of birth of each individual” (Duyckinck and Duyckinck 1855, 1: vi). The Duyckincks violate this stated organizational scheme within ...
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... land, America began to send back, with unveiled exultation, to Europe” (Tyler 1878, 64). Tyler is convincing: the American strand has had a deep and abiding impact on the literary imagination. EARLY. AMERICAN. LITERATURE. IN THE. CLASSROOM.
... land, America began to send back, with unveiled exultation, to Europe” (Tyler 1878, 64). Tyler is convincing: the American strand has had a deep and abiding impact on the literary imagination. EARLY. AMERICAN. LITERATURE. IN THE. CLASSROOM.
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... land that stretched westward for thousands of miles. This unique geographic situation contributed immeasurably to make American literature what it would become. “Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil,” Wallace Stevens wrote in “The ...
... land that stretched westward for thousands of miles. This unique geographic situation contributed immeasurably to make American literature what it would become. “Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil,” Wallace Stevens wrote in “The ...
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... land. All these modes must fulfill their rhetorical purposes while describing places and peoples that readers had never encountered before. One work often contains two different modes to convey what the writer feels needs to be ...
... land. All these modes must fulfill their rhetorical purposes while describing places and peoples that readers had never encountered before. One work often contains two different modes to convey what the writer feels needs to be ...
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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