Recently added articles from Early American Literature:
Freedoms call: the persuasive power of mercy Otis Warren's dramatic sketches, 1772-1775.(Excerpt)
Sep 22, 2009; ... <Pre>Oh! My poor country! ...--When will it be,When high-soul'd honor beats within our bosoms,And calls to action--when thy sons like heroes,Shall dare assert thy rights, and with their swordsLike men, like freemen, force a way to conquestOr on thy ruins ...
Introduction: reading early America with Charles Brockden Brown.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In the last twenty years, as the period we call the early American republic has gained prominence within the study of American literary history, Charles Brockden Brown's stock has risen among practitioners. More people, simply put, now read and work on Brown than ever before. The major ...
The tyranny of sleep: somnambulism, moral citizenship, and Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Charles Brockden Brown's memorable preface to his novel Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (1799) has become a talisman in American studies scholarship, repeatedly invoked for its power to express the cultural nationalism of post-Revolutionary America. In this preface, Brown ...
Re-walking the purchase: Edgar Huntly, David Hume, and the origins of ownership.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In April 1799, four months before the first volume of Edgar Huntly was published in Philadelphia, a short preview of the novel appeared in the New York periodical The Monthly Magazine and American Review. This "Fragment," as it was called, consisted of roughly four chapters taken from the ...
Gothic enlightenment: contagion and community in Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The term "gothic" is surely one of literary criticism's most elastic concepts. As either a generic category or a set of textual conventions, it can define the foundational crimes of the nation, unveil authorial intention in psychobiographical form, or relate a mythic struggle of Manichean ...