Overview
Elizabeth Hewitt argues that many canonical American authors, including Jefferson, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, turned to letter-writing as an idealized genre through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. Hewitt maintains that, although correspondence is generally only conceived as a biographical archive, it must instead be understood as a significant genre through which these early authors made sense of social and political relations in the new nation.
- | Author: Elizabeth Hewitt
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Dec 17, 2009
- | Number of Pages: 244 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521123739
- | ISBN-13: 9780521123730
