After Franklin: The Emergence of Autobiography in Post-revolutionary America 1780-1830University of New Hampshire ; published by University Press of New England, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 241 pages An analysis of the foundations of autobiography in America. |
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... History of My Life , published as The Autobiography , in Writings , ed . J. A. Leo LeMay ( New York : Library of ... literary history was influenced by David Perkins , Is Literary History Possible ? ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Uni ...
... History of My Life , published as The Autobiography , in Writings , ed . J. A. Leo LeMay ( New York : Library of ... literary history was influenced by David Perkins , Is Literary History Possible ? ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Uni ...
Page 196
... literature becomes then and there conscious of crossing a great spiri- tual chasm- of moving from one world of ideas and sentiments to a world of ideas and sentiments quite other and very different " ( The Literary History of the ...
... literature becomes then and there conscious of crossing a great spiri- tual chasm- of moving from one world of ideas and sentiments to a world of ideas and sentiments quite other and very different " ( The Literary History of the ...
Page 197
... literature , " but those years " produced no literature of note , " being " from the standpoint of literary cre- ation , the feeblest generation in American history " ( 263 ) . Finally , he asserted , the years from 1815 to 1870 brought ...
... literature , " but those years " produced no literature of note , " being " from the standpoint of literary cre- ation , the feeblest generation in American history " ( 263 ) . Finally , he asserted , the years from 1815 to 1870 brought ...
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