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Correspondence and American literature, 1770-1865 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Correspondence and American literature, 1770-1865 // by Elizabeth Hewitt.
remainder title:	Correspondence & American Literature, 1770-1865
Author:	Hewitt, Elizabeth,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 230 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	American literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485541
ISBN:	9780511485541 (ebook)

Correspondence and American literature, 1770-1865 /
Hewitt, Elizabeth,1965-

Correspondence and American literature, 1770-1865 /Correspondence & American Literature, 1770-1865by Elizabeth Hewitt. - 1 online resource (x, 230 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;146. - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;165..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction : universal letter-writers -- 1. National letters -- 2. Emerson and Fuller's phenomenal letters -- 3. Melville's dead letters -- 4. Jacob's letters from nowhere -- 5. Dickinson's lyrical letters -- Conclusion : Whitman's universal letters.

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.

ISBN: 9780511485541 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

567842
American literature
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PS217.L47 / H47 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.309

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