A History of American Literature
The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 87 contemporary interest in such diverse topics as Indians and somnambulism. What Brown b ...
88 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 A History of American Literature, Second Edition. Richard Gray. © 2012 Richard Gray. Published ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 89 that really mattered, and perhaps unnerved, was an economic one. The economic base of the count ...
90 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 virulent defense of slavery and states rights from spokespeople from the South. And a path was ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 91 Declaration then went on to distinguish between the founding fathers and their own gathering. “ ...
92 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 newspapers. Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, and Nathaniel Hawthorne were ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 93 Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.,” a series of youthful satires on New York society. Published in 1802– ...
94 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 much in a “Note” to the first tale where the reader is told that “the foregoing Tale, one would ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 95 these Western travels were A Tour of the Prairie, one of three volumes in The Crayon Miscellany ...
96 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 as event. The Spy was an immediate success. One reviewer hailed Cooper as “the first who has de ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 97 poetry.” At work here, in short, is an Edenic impulse common in American writing that drives th ...
98 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 own comments on civil law are, in fact, conflicting. He is deeply critical sometimes of what he ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 99 Perhaps; and, if so, the novel is as much a new Western as a traditional one, mapping out the d ...
100 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 energetic writer. His early works included Kee p Cool (1817), a novel that was also a tract ag ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 101 Kepler’s law controls the motion of the planets. The law is Progress: the result Democracy.” T ...
102 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 law and society” – are sometimes landscapes of desolation. “If a curse had been pronounced upo ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 103 Linwoods; or “Sixty Years Since” in America (1835), which portrays the life of New York City d ...
104 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 been condemned as a witch, after she cured a snakebite with the help of herbal medicine; and s ...
Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 105 The making of Southern myth However much they differ, though, writers like Cooper and Sedgwick ...
106 Inventing Americas: 1800–1865 perhaps, appertain to eternity alone.” According to this prescription, the poet’s task is to w ...
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