Elizabeth Hewitt uncovers the centrality of letter-writing to antebellum American literature. She argues that many canonical American authors turned to the epistolary form as an idealised genre through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. The letter was the vi...

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1. Verfasser:	Hewitt, Elizabeth 1965- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2004
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge studies in American literature and culture 146
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1700-1800 Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte 1770-1865 Geschichte American literature / 19th century / History and criticism Letter writing in literature Letter writing / United States / History / 19th century Letter writing / United States / History / 18th century American literature / 1783-1850 / History and criticism Epistolary fiction, American / History and criticism Epistolary poetry, American / History and criticism American letters / History and criticism Letters in literature Briefliteratur USA
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Zusammenfassung:	Elizabeth Hewitt uncovers the centrality of letter-writing to antebellum American literature. She argues that many canonical American authors turned to the epistolary form as an idealised genre through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. The letter was the vital technology of social intercourse in the nineteenth century and was adopted as an exemplary genre in which authors from Crevecoeur and Adams through Jefferson, to Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, could theorise the social and political themes that were so crucial to their respective literary projects. They interrogated the political possibilities of social intercourse through the practice and analysis of correspondence. Hewitt argues that although correspondence is generally only conceived as a biographical archive, it must instead be understood as a significant genre through which these early authors made sense of social and political relations in the nation
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Beschreibung:	1 online resource (x, 230 pages)
ISBN:	9780511485541
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511485541