Cambridge History of American Literature/Prose Writing 1820-1865

This is the fullest and richest account of the American Renaissance available in any literary history. The narratives in this volume made for a four-fold perspective on literature: social, cultural, intellectual and aesthetic. Together these constitute a basic reassessment of American prose-writing between 1820 and 1865. It is an achievement that will remain authoritative for our time and that will set new directions for coming decades in American literary scholarship.Bercovitch, Sacvan is the author of 'Cambridge History of American Literature/Prose Writing 1820-1865' with ISBN 9780521301060 and ISBN 0521301068.