American literature before 1880. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert Lawson-Peebles.
• Other Names: Lawson-Peebles, Robert
• Contents: 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 800bc 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 Allen 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 -- Individual authors.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (352 pages)
• Subjects: 810.9001; American literature -- History and criticism; American literature; Letterkunde; Amerikaans; Geschiedenis (vorm); Literatur; USA; USA; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317870371; 1317870379
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.