American Hieroglyphics: The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance

John T. Irwin

Yale University Press, 1980 - Literary Criticism - 371 pages

"This is major scholarship, both as it contributes to American history of ideas and as it offers a brilliant new interpretation of major nineteenth-century American writers."--J. Hillis Miller

Bibliographic information

• Title: American Hieroglyphics: The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance
• Author: John T. Irwin
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Yale University Press, 1980
• ISBN: 0300024711, 9780300024715
• Length: 371 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / General