Authority, Autonomy, and Representation in American Literature, 1776-1865

Mark R. Patterson

Princeton University Press, 2014

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From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, a familiar scene appears and reappears in American literature: a speaker stands before a crowd of men and women, attempting to mitigate their natural suspicions in order to form a body of federated wills. In this important study of the relationship of literature and politics, Mark Patterson argues that t

ISBN-13
9780691601854
ISBN-10
0691601852
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2014
Publication date
2014-07-14
Pages
280
Dimensions
155x234x18
Weight
442