Correspondence and American Literature, 1770-1865Elizabeth Hewitt argues that many canonical American authors, including Jefferson, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, turned to letter-writing as an idealized genre through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. Hewitt maintains that, although correspondence is generally only conceived as a biographical archive, it must instead be understood as a significant genre through which these early authors made sense of social and political relations in the new nation. |
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| Title | Correspondence and American Literature, 1770-1865 Volume 146 of Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
| Author | Elizabeth Hewitt |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0521123739, 9780521123730 |
| Length | 244 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Renaissance |
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