Oriental Shadows : The Presence of the East in Early American Literature /

"Through the use of several iconic early American authors (Anne Bradstreet, James Kirkpatrick, Benjamin Franklin, and Edgar Allan Poe), James Egan's Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature explores the presence of "the East" in American writing. Th...

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1. Verfasser: Egan, Jim, 1961-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2011]
Schriftenreihe:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction. From Bradstreet to Poe
  • The colonial body travels East in Anne Bradstreet's poetry
  • How West becomes East in colonial Georgia poetry
  • Humanity's eastern home in Benjamin Franklin's Oriental tales
  • Edgar Allan Poe's Oriental America
  • Epilogue.