Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 1, 1590-1820

Klappentext The Cambridge History Of American Literature addresses the broad spectrum of new and established directions in all branches of American writing, and will include the work of scholars and critics who have shaped, and who continue to shape, what has become a major area of literary scholarship. Zusammenfassung This 1997 volume addresses the spectrum of new and established directions in American writing. An interdisciplinary distillation of American literary history! it weds the voice of traditional criticism with the diversity of interests that characterise contemporary literary studies. Volume I covers the colonial and early national periods. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The literature of colonisation Myra Jehlen; 2. New England puritan literature Emory Elliott; 3. British-American belles lettres David S. Shields; 4. The American enlightenment 1750-1820 Robert A. Ferguson; 5. The literature of the revolutionary and early national periods Michael T. Gilmore; Chronology; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Sacvan Bercovitch, Sacvan (Harvard University Bercovitch
• Assisted by: Sacvan Bercovitch (Editor), Sacvan (Harvard University Bercovitch (Editor), Bercovitch Sacvan (Editor), Cyrus R. Patell (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.1994
• EAN: 9780521301053
• ISBN: 978-0-521-30105-3
• No. of pages: 845
• Series: Cham; The Cambridge History of American Literature; Cambridge History of American
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, American English, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600