New England Literary Culture: From Revolution T, Buell, Lawrence<-

Name: New England Literary Culture: From Revolution T, Buell, Lawrence<-
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

New England Literary CultureFrom Revolution through Renaissance\nAuthor(s): Lawrence Buell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521378017, 978-0521378017\nSynopsis\nThis book is a study of the development of New England literature and literary institutions from the American Revolutionary era to the late nineteenth century. Professor Buell explores the foundations, growth and literary results of the professionalization of the writing vocation. He pays particular attention to the major writers - Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Stowe and Dickinson - but surveys them with a number of lesser-known authors, and explores the conventions, values and institutions which affected them all. Some of the main topics covered include the distinctive features of the Early National and Antebellum periods in New England writing; the importance of certain literary genres (poetry, oratory and religious narrative; etc.); .