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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... poets in the quaint phraseology, enriched and embued with the scriptural learning, of that primitive and peculiar people.” According to this viewpoint, the poems Kettell collected were curiosities, examples of how people used to write ...
... poets in the quaint phraseology, enriched and embued with the scriptural learning, of that primitive and peculiar people.” According to this viewpoint, the poems Kettell collected were curiosities, examples of how people used to write ...
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... poem written solely for the poem's sake” (Poe 1984,295). The fact-filled, often didactic, and frequently admonitory literature of colonial America had no place in Poe's aesthetic. Poe did appreciate some early American authors, even if ...
... poem written solely for the poem's sake” (Poe 1984,295). The fact-filled, often didactic, and frequently admonitory literature of colonial America had no place in Poe's aesthetic. Poe did appreciate some early American authors, even if ...
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... Poets and Poetry of America (1842), The Prose Writers of America (1846), and The Female Poets of America (1848). He subsequently prepared new editions of all three, revising and expanding their contents to suit public demand and to ...
... Poets and Poetry of America (1842), The Prose Writers of America (1846), and The Female Poets of America (1848). He subsequently prepared new editions of all three, revising and expanding their contents to suit public demand and to ...
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... poem is through, its speaker revises the phrase to “Nota: his soil is man's intelligence.” Either way, Stevens identified an inextricable link between the land and the intellectual activity that occurs there, a link that is essential ...
... poem is through, its speaker revises the phrase to “Nota: his soil is man's intelligence.” Either way, Stevens identified an inextricable link between the land and the intellectual activity that occurs there, a link that is essential ...
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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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