Correspondence and American literature, 1770-1865 / by Elizabeth Hewitt.
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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 146.Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (x, 230 pages)Content type: - text
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- 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
- Littérature américaine -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature américaine -- 1783-1850 -- Histoire et critique
- Lettres américaines (Genre littéraire) -- Histoire et critique
- Lettres (Genre littéraire) dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- American letters
- American literature
- Epistolary fiction, American
- Epistolary poetry, American
- Letter writing
- Letter writing in literature
- Letters in literature
- United States
- Brief Motiv
- Literatur
- Briefliteratur
- USA
- 1700-1899
- 813.309 22
- PS217.L47 H47 2004eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-225) and index.
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, 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.
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