The Idea of Authorship in America: Democratic Poetics from Franklin to Melville

By Kenneth Dauber

Book Overview

An analysis of American writing from its beginnings to the Civil War. The author discusses democracy in American literature as a working principle and studies the work of Franklin, Brockden Brown, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne and Melville.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299124843
• ISBN13: 9780299124847
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.8"