The Cambridge history of American literature. Volume 2, 1820-1865 / general editor, Sacvan Bercovitc...
The Cambridge history of American literature. Volume 2, 1820-1865 / general editor, Sacvan Bercovitc...
The Cambridge history of American literature. Volume 2, 1820-1865 / general editor, Sacvan Bercovitch ; associate editor, Cyrus R.K. Patell. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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English
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Physical content
1 online resource (xviii, 887 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
CONDITIONS OF LITERARY VOCATION / Michael Davitt Bell -- Beginnings of Professionalism -- Women's Fiction and the Literary Marketplace in the 1850s -- THE LITERATURE OF EXPANSION AND RACE / Eric J. Sundquist -- Exploration and Empire -- The Frontier and American Indians -- The Literature of Slavery...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1995.
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Summary
This is the fullest and richest account of the American Renaissance available in any literary history. The narratives in this volume made for a four-fold perspective on literature: social, cultural, intellectual and aesthetic. Michael D. Bell describes the social conditions of the literary vocation that shaped the growth of a professional literatur...
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The Cambridge history of American literature. Volume 2, 1820-1865 / general editor, Sacvan Bercovitch ; associate editor, Cyrus R.K. Patell. [electronic resource]
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The Cambridge history of American literature. Volume 2, Prose Writing, 1820-1865
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English
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74VKVZROXEmZ
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ISBN
1-139-05470-8
DDC
810.9003
MMS ID
991023970901302626
