New England's Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, - History, Religion, 1620-1860 = CSALC 142

Informationen zum Autor John McWilliams is Abernethy Professor of American Literature at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is the author of Political Justice in a Republic: James Fenimore Cooper's America (1972), Hawthorne, Melville and the American Character (Cambridge, 1984) and The American Epic (Cambridge, 1989). Klappentext This compelling book is essential reading for historians and literary critics of New England. Zusammenfassung In this magisterial study! John McWilliams traces the development of New England's influential cultural identity. Through written responses to historical crises from early New England through the pre-Civil War period! McWilliams argues that the meaning of 'New England' despite claims for its consistency was continuously reformulated. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Plantation and Settlement; Part II. Time of Troubles; Part III. Revolution; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: John Mcwilliams
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.08.2004
• EAN: 9780521826839
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82683-9
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies