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: Nov 25, 2004
- | Number of Pages: 242 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521842557
- | ISBN-13: 9780521842556
