American Literature Before 1880 - Robert Lawson-Peebles

American Literature Before 1880 - Bog af Robert Lawson-Peebles - Hardback

American Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the projection of images of the East onto an as-yet unrecognised West; the cultural consequences of Viking, Colombian, and then English migration to America; the growth and independence of the British American colonies; the key writers of the new Rlic; and the..