Early American Literature : : A Comparatist Approach / / Alfred Owen Aldridge.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Aldridge, Alfred Owen,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 691
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

A. Owen Aldridge shows that early American literature is not an isolated phenomenon, but one affected by the same influences which operated upon other literatures of the period.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ONE. Introduction -- PART I. STYLE AND STRUCTURE -- Introduction -- TWO. Anne Bradstreet: Some Thoughts on the Tenth Muse -- THREE. Edward Taylor and the American Baroque -- PART II. THEME AND IDEOLOGY -- Introduction -- FOUR. The Many Versions of Polly Baker: Deism and Human Rights -- FIVE. Paine and Dickinson: Politics and Literature -- SIX. The Concept of Ancients and Moderns in American Poetry of the Federal Period -- SEVEN. The Apex of American Literary Nationalism -- PART III. THE TWO AMERICAS: NORTH AND SOUTH -- Introduction -- EIGHT. Thomas Paine and Latin American Independence -- NINE. The Enlightenment in the Americas -- TEN. Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Backmatter