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Description

1 online resource.

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Series

Longman literature in English series

Longman literature in English series.

Description based on

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed March 26, 2015).

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Dedication; 1 The Problem of American Literature; The case of Paul De Man; James, Hawthorne, and the problem; The difficulty of American literary history; American exceptionalism; Songs of the earth's edge; 2 A ProtoAmerican Literature, 800 BC to 1611; Beyond Atlantis; Viking settlement; The oriental impact; The Columbian complex; To the Virginian voyage; 3 From Settlement to Revolution, 1607-1783; Virginia and the naming of New England; The varieties of writing in New England.

The rising empireThe fall of the British American empire; 4 The New Republic, 1776-1826; The age of Paine; Writing in a vacuum; Experiment and failure: Charles Brockden Brown; Transatlantic domesticity; Transatlantic difficulties: the early work of James Fenimore Cooper; 5 Growth and Identity, 1812-1865; Transatlantic trifles; Fenimore Cooper and the follies of democracy; Yankee attitudes; Explorations of identity: Hawthorne; Explorations of identity: the fiction of Melville; The nation in flux: Edgar Allan Poe; Disunion and Civil War; 6 Prospects for the Great Republic, 1865-1880.

Battle-pieces: the aftermath of warThe local and the universal; E Pluribus Unum; A complex fate; Chronology; General Bibliographies; General histories/handbooks of America and its literature; Definitions of America and its literature; Thematic studies; Period studies; Individual Authors; Index; Longman Literature in English Series.

Summary

American Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the projection of images of the East onto an as-yet unrecognised West; the cultural consequences of Viking, Colombian, and then English migration to America; the growth and independence of the British American colonies; the key writers of the new Republic; and the development of the culture of the United States before and after the Civil War. It is intende.

Subject

American literature -- History and criticism.

LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.

American literature.

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Form:

Print version: Lawson-Peebles, Robert. American Literature Before 1880. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2014 9780582495227

ISBN

9781317870388 (electronic bk.)

1317870387 (electronic bk.)