Ezra Tawil

Literature, American Style

The Originality of Imitation in the Early Republic

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Produktbeschreibung

Ezra Tawil teaches in the English Department of the University of Rochester. He is author of The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780812250374
• ISBN-10: 0812250370
• Artikelnr.: 52416693

Autorenporträt

Ezra Tawil teaches in the English Department of the University of Rochester. He is author of The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Style and the Cisatlantic
Chapter 1. To Form a More Perfect Language: Noah Webster's American-Style
English
Chapter 2. Transatlantic Correspondences: Crèvecoeur and the Incorrect
Style
Chapter 3. "New Forms of Sublimity": Charles Brockden Brown and the
Irregular Style
Chapter 4. "Homespun Habits": Seduction, Sentiment, and the Artless Style
Coda. Stock and Soil
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments