Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America: The World Turned Upside Down (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America: The World Turned Upside Down (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Book

This book attempts an interpretation of Revolutionary American culture. It argues that the cultural identity of the United States, like its political identity, emerged from a quarrel with the Old World. Europeans believed that the Revolution had 'turned the world upside down'. American intellectuals tried to construct a republic which refuted European criticism.Read More

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    By analyzing images of the American landscape in works by writers such as Crevecoeur, Noah Webster, Brackenridge, Jefferson, Merriweather Lewis, and Brockden Brown, Lawson-Peebles suggests a close relation between imaginative literature and a wide range of non-fictional writing. The book suggests that intellectuals of the American Revolutionary period tried to construct a culture that answered European criticisms. Their failure to do so gave them a sharper awareness of the American terrain, and this awareness became a central theme in American culture.

  • 0521346479
  • 9780521346474
  • Robert Lawson-Peebles
  • 29 April 1988
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 400
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