The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820Harvard University Press, 1997 - 220 страница This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Robert Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture. |
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... literary and historical studies must be seen as an intrinsic one . My second caveat has to do with the writing of literary history as an enter- prise . I found the assignment much harder to complete than I had imagined it would be ...
... literary and historical studies must be seen as an intrinsic one . My second caveat has to do with the writing of literary history as an enter- prise . I found the assignment much harder to complete than I had imagined it would be ...
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... literary forms available to them : the political pamphlet , the epistle , the newspaper article , the scientific essay , and the broadside . Each demonstrates a peculiar capacity in still other literary forms ( Franklin in the almanac ...
... literary forms available to them : the political pamphlet , the epistle , the newspaper article , the scientific essay , and the broadside . Each demonstrates a peculiar capacity in still other literary forms ( Franklin in the almanac ...
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... Literary Consciousness in America . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1980 . The Dispossessed Garden : Pastoral and History in Southern Literature . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1975 . The Man of Letters in New ...
... Literary Consciousness in America . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1980 . The Dispossessed Garden : Pastoral and History in Southern Literature . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1975 . The Man of Letters in New ...
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What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
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