Correspondence and American Literature, 1770–1865

Elizabeth (Ohio State University) Hewitt

Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Elizabeth Hewitt uncovers the centrality of letter-writing to antebellum American literature. She argues that many canonical American authors, including Jefferson, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, turned to the epistolary form as an idealised genre with which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War.

ISBN-13
9780521842556
ISBN-10
0521842557
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
Publication date
2004-11-25
Pages
242
Dimensions
159x236x23
Weight
510