The American Renaissance Reconsidered

Book Overview

The term American Renaissance designates a period in our nation's history when the literary "classics" appeared-works "original" enough to mark a beginning for America's literary history. But the American Renaissance, Donald Pease argues in his introduction, does not belong to the nation's secular history so much as it denotes a rebirth from it: "Independent of the time kept by secular history, the American Renaissance keeps what we could call global...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801839378
• ISBN13: 9780801839375
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"