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The Idea of Authorship in America

The Idea of Authorship in America Democratic Poetics from Franklin to Melville

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An analysis of American writing from its beginnings to the Civil War. The author discusses democracy in American literature as a working principle and studies the work of Franklin, Brockden Brown, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne and Melville.

Book information

ISBN: 9780299124809
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 810.9
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 268
Weight: -1g