American Literature Before 1880

• Main Author: Lawson-Peebles, Robert
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Harlow, England ; Tokyo Routledge 2003; Taylor and Francis; Pearson/Longman; Taylor & Francis Group; Pearson Addison Wesley
• Edition: 1
• Series: Longman Literature In English Series
• Subjects: American literature; American literature - History and criticism; Introductory Literary Studies; Young Man; Charles Brockden Brown; united; United States; book; Richard III; Edgar Huntly; Polo's Travels; Translatio Imperii; Charlotte Temple; states; Wild Man; British American Empire; bay; psalm; Colonial Administration; George III; White Whale; Magnalia Christi Americana; americana; Mould Board Plough; magnalia; Dead Men; Literary Nationalism; Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished; polos; Josh Billings; travels; christi; Columbia Literary History; Barbara Frietchie; Bay Psalm Book; American Literary History; Sir William Phips; Marble Faun
• ISBN: 0582495229; 9781138436633; 1138436631; 9780582495227
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315836270

American Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the projection of images of the East onto an as-yet unrecognised West; the cultural consequences of Viking, Colombian, and then English migration to America; the growth and independence of the British American colonies; the key writers of the new Republic; and the development of the culture of the United States before and after the Civil War. It is intended both as an introduction for undergraduates to the richness and variety of American Literature, and as a contribution to the debate about its distinctive nature. The book therefore begins with a lengthy survey of earlier histories of American Literature.