Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810 - Emory Elliott - Hardcover

Elliott demonstrates how America's first men of letters--Timothy Dwight, Joel Barlow, Philip Frenan, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and Charles Brockden Brown--sought to make individual genius in literature express the collective genius of the American people. Without literary precedent to aid them, Elliott argues, these writers attempted to convey a vision of what America ought to be--and when the moral imperatives implicit in their writings, were rejected by the vast number of their countrymen they became pioneers of another sort--the first to experience the alienation from mainstream American culture that would become the fate of nearly all serious writers who would follow.Elliott, Emory is the author of 'Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810 - Emory Elliott - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780195029994 and ISBN 0195029992.