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999201
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b753571
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Elliott, Emory.
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Revolutionary Writers : : Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Oxford University Press, USA,, 1986.
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1 online resource (337 pages)
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| ISBN
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019536497X
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: 1280605200
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: 6610605203
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: 9780195364972
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: 9781280605208
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: 9786610605200
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9780195039955
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Contents; Introduction; I: The Crisis of Authority in the Revolutionary Age; II: Timothy Dwight: Pastor, Poet, and Politics; III: Joel Barlow: Innocence and Experience Abroad; IV: Philip Freneau: Poetry of Social Commitment; V: Hugh Henry Brackenridge: The Regenerative Power of American Humor; VI: Charles Brockden Brown: The Burden of the Past; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Elliott demonstrates how America's first men of letters--Timothy Dwight, Joel Barlow, Philip Freneau, 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 by the vast number of their countrymen they became pioneers of another sort--the first to experience the alienation from mainstream American cul.
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American literature-- 1783-1850-- History and criticism.
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American literature-- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775-- History and criticism.
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American literature-- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783-- History and criticism.
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Authority in literature.
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Literature and society-- United States.
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American literature-- Colonial period.
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American literature-- Revolutionary period (United States)
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American literature.
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American Literature.
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Authority in literature.
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English.
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Intellectual life.
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Languages Literatures.
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Literature and society.
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United States, Intellectual life, 18th century.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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810810/.9/001
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| LC Classification
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PS193
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