Revolutionary Writers

Literature and Authority in the New Republic 1725-1810

By: Emory Elliott

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Paperback | 5 February 2002

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Elliott demonstrates how America's first men of letters--Timothy Dwight, Joel Barlow, Philip Freneau, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and Charles Brockden Brown--sought to make individual genius in literature express the collective genius of the American people. Without literary precedent to aid them, Elliott argues, these writers attempted to convey a vision of what America ought to be; and when the moral imperatives implicit in their writings were rejected by the vast number of their countrymen they became pioneers of another sort--the first to experience the alienation from mainstream American culture that would become the fate of nearly all serious writers who would follow.

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"This is a fine book, well organized, well argued, and well written."--Harry S. Mooney, Jr., University of Pittsburgh "Carefully conceived, gracefully executed, Revolutionary Writers is essential reading for anyone concerned with the literature of the post-revolutionary period, and it is equally important for anyone interested in the ongoing discussion of the origins of the American self."--Early American Literature "Revolutionary Writers [is] a work that significantly redirects our understanding of American literature in the latter part of the eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries."--The Canadian Review of American Studies "This is a fine book, well organized, well argued, and well written."--Harry S. Mooney, Jr., University of Pittsburgh "Carefully conceived, gracefully executed, Revolutionary Writers is essential reading for anyone concerned with the literature of the post-revolutionary period, and it is equally important for anyone interested in the ongoing discussion of the origins of the American self."--Early American Literature "Revolutionary Writers [is] a work that significantly redirects our understanding of American literature in the latter part of the eighteenth and the early nineteenth centuries."--The Canadian Review of American Studies

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