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

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 unreco...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- 1 The Problem of American Literature -- The case of Paul De Man -- James, Hawthorne, and the problem -- The difficulty of American literary history -- American exceptionalism -- Songs of the earth's edge -- 2 A ProtoAmerican Literature, 800 BC to 1611 -- Beyond Atlantis -- Viking settlement -- The oriental impact -- The Columbian complex -- To the Virginian voyage -- 3 From Settlement to Revolution, 1607-1783 -- Virginia and the naming of New England -- The varieties of writing in New England -- The rising empire -- The fall of the British American empire -- 4 The New Republic, 1776-1826 -- The age of Paine -- Writing in a vacuum -- Experiment and failure: Charles Brockden Brown -- Transatlantic domesticity -- Transatlantic difficulties: the early work of James Fenimore Cooper -- 5 Growth and Identity, 1812-1865 -- Transatlantic trifles -- Fenimore Cooper and the follies of democracy -- Yankee attitudes -- Explorations of identity: Hawthorne -- Explorations of identity: the fiction of Melville -- The nation in flux: Edgar Allan Poe -- Disunion and Civil War -- 6 Prospects for the Great Republic, 1865-1880 -- Battle-pieces: the aftermath of war -- The local and the universal -- E Pluribus Unum -- A complex fate -- Chronology -- General Bibliographies -- General histories/handbooks of America and its literature -- Definitions of America and its literature -- Thematic studies -- Period studies -- Individual Authors -- Index -- Longman Literature in English Series