Authority, Autonomy, and Representation in American Literature, 1776-1865 / / Mark R. Patterson.
From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, a familiar scene appears and reappears in American literature: a speaker stands before a crowd of men and women, attempting to mitigate their natural suspicions in order to form a body of federated wills. In this important study of the relationship of lit...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1988 |
| Año de Publicación: | 2014 |
| Edición: | Course Book |
| Lenguaje: | English |
| Colección: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- ABBREVIATIONS OF FREQUENTLY CITED WORKS
- Part One. The Post-Revolutionary Period
- Chapter One. Benjamin Franklin and the Authority of Imitation
- Chapter Two. Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Representation
- Chapter Three. Charles Brockden Brown, Authority, and Intentionality
- Part Two. The Antebellum Period
- Chapter Four. Myth from the Perspective of History: James Fenimore Cooper and Paternal Authorities
- Chapter Five. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American Representative
- Chapter Six. Herman Melville: The Authority of Confidence
- Conclusion
- Index