The idea of authorship in America : democratic poetics from Franklin to Melville
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.
Print Book, English, ©1990
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., ©1990
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xx, 268 pages ; 23 cm
9780299124809, 9780299124847, 0299124800, 0299124843
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