American Life in Literature, Volume 1Jay Broadus Hubbell |
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... literature is usually taught as though it had grown up in isolation from all other literatures . As a matter of fact , one cannot know American literature who knows nothing of the literatures of other lands . For nearly two centuries our ...
... literature is usually taught as though it had grown up in isolation from all other literatures . As a matter of fact , one cannot know American literature who knows nothing of the literatures of other lands . For nearly two centuries our ...
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... literature from the point of view of political thought . There are other approaches which illuminate the period . The study of Colonial literature throws light upon the process by which English settlers were changed by their New World ...
... literature from the point of view of political thought . There are other approaches which illuminate the period . The study of Colonial literature throws light upon the process by which English settlers were changed by their New World ...
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... Literature " ( 1830 ) , William Ellery Channing maintained that American writers had formed themselves too exclusively upon British models ; he wisely suggested that they acquaint themselves with other European literatures - as Irving ...
... Literature " ( 1830 ) , William Ellery Channing maintained that American writers had formed themselves too exclusively upon British models ; he wisely suggested that they acquaint themselves with other European literatures - as Irving ...
Contents
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The Settlement of Virginia | 4 |
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS 17931835 | 24 |
Copyright | |
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