Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America - The World Turned Upside Down

Klappentext This book attempts an interpretation of Revolutionary American culture. Zusammenfassung This book attempts an interpretation of Revolutionary American culture. It argues that the cultural identity of the United States! like its political identity! emerged from a quarrel with the Old World. Europeans believed that the Revolution had 'turned the world upside down'. American intellectuals tried to construct a republic which refuted European criticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue; 1. The triumph of Redcoatism; 2. A Republic of dreams; 3. Dreary wastes and awful solitude; 4. The natural limit of a republic; 5. Thomas Jefferson and the spacious field of imagination; 6. The Lewis and Clark Expedition; 7. The excursive imagination of Charles Brockden Brown; Epilogue.

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• Authors: Robert Lawson-Peebles
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.2008
• EAN: 9780521070805
• ISBN: 978-0-521-07080-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies