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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 31
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Dictionary of literary biography complete online
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 31.
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Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
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John Adams (1734-1826) - Samuel Adams (1722-1803) - Ethan Allen (1738-1789) - James Allen (1739-1808) - Josiah Atkins (circa 1755-1781) - Thomas Bacon (circa 1700-1768) - John Bartram (1699-1777) - Joseph Bellamy (1719-1790) - Robert Bolling (1738-1775) - Jonathan Boucher (1738-1804) - John Camm (1718-1778) - Landon Carter (1710-1780) - Benjamin Church (1734-1778) - Thomas Cradock (1718-1770) - Charles Crawford (1752-circa 1815) - Samuel Davies (1723-1761) - William Dawson (1704-1752) - John Dickinson (1732-1808) - Nathaniel Evans (1742-1767) - Thomas Fitch (circa 1700-1774) - Alexander Garden (circa 1685-1756) - Thomas Godfrey (1736-1763) - Jonas Green (1712-1767) - Joseph Green (1706-1780) - Alexander Hamilton (1712-1756) - Jupiter Hammon (1711-died between 1790 and 1806) - Oliver Hart (1723-1795) - Samuel Hopkins (1721-1803) - Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791) - Thomas Hutchinson (1711-1780) - John Jay (1745-1829) - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) - John Leacock (1729-1802) - William Livingston (1723-1790) - James Maury (1718-1769) - Jonathan Mayhew (1720-1766) - John Mercer (1704-1768) - George Micklejohn (circa 1717-1818) - Robert Munford (circa 1737-1783) - Jonathan Odell (1737-1818) - James Otis, Jr. (1725-1783) - Thomas Paine (1737-1809) - John Parke (1754-1789) - Benjamin Young Prime (1733-1791) - Samuel Quincy of Georgia (?-?) -- Samuel Quincy of Massachusetts (1734-1789) - James Reid (?-?) - Samuel Seabury (1729-1796) - Michael Smith (1698-circa 1771) - William Smith (1727-1803) - Ezra Stiles (1727-1795) - William Stith (1707-1755) - Thomas Story (circa 1670-1742) - John Trumbull (1750-1831) - Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) - George Washington (1732-1799) - Phillis Wheatley (circa 1754-1784) - John Witherspoon (1723-1894) - Charles Woodmason (circa 1720-?) - John Wollman (1720-1772) - John Joachim Zubly (1724-1781) - Eighteenth-Century Philosophical Background - John Locke (1632-1704) - George Berkeley (1685-1753) - Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) - Thomas Reid (1710-1796) - Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782) - Dugald Stewart (1753-1828) -- Eighteenth-Century Aesthetis Theories - Hugh Blair, Excerpts from "Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres" (1783) - John Witherspoon, Excerpts from "The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon" (1800-1801) - William Smith, Excerpts from "A General Idea of the College of Mirania" (1753). |
| Summary |
Documents the "two beginnings" of American literature: one established in the austere rhetoric and sacred imagery of the sermon and the personal narrative of New England; another fostered by Enlightenment thought and neoclassical principles. |
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. |
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Original: 421 p. |
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Mode of access: Internet. |
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American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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American literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783.
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Authors, American -- 18th century -- Biography.
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Authors, American. |
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18th century |
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Biographies.
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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United States. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Elliott, Emory, 1942-2009.
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Gale Group.
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| ISBN |
0810317095 |
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9780810317093 |
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