Narrating Discovery

Narrating Discovery The Romantic Explorer in American Literature, 1790-1855 - The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms

Hardback (19 Nov 1992)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Beginning with British or colonial writers and moving on to early American narratives of explorers and antebellum novelists, this study traces the developing patterns of the American discovery narrative, a form of writing that chronicled the whole cultural perspective of the American frontier.

Book information

ISBN: 9780231079969
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 810.9003
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 249
Weight: 544g
Height: 236mm
Width: 158mm
Spine width: 22mm