Author: Francis HopkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
A Pretty Story Written in the Year of Our Lord 2774. Philadelphia, J. Dunlap, 1774
Author: Francis HopkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
The American Idea of England, 1776-1840
Author: Jennifer ClarkPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131704522X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Arguing that American colonists who declared their independence in 1776 remained tied to England by both habit and inclination, Jennifer Clark traces the new Americans' struggle to come to terms with their loss of identity as British, and particularly English, citizens. Americans' attempts to negotiate the new Anglo-American relationship are revealed in letters, newspaper accounts, travel reports, essays, song lyrics, short stories and novels, which Clark suggests show them repositioning themselves in a transatlantic context newly defined by political revolution. Chapters examine political writing as a means for Americans to explore the Anglo-American relationship, the appropriation of John Bull by American writers, the challenge the War of 1812 posed to the reconstructed Anglo-American relationship, the Paper War between American and English authors that began around the time of the War of 1812, accounts by Americans lured to England as a place of poetry, story and history, and the work of American writers who dissected the Anglo-American relationship in their fiction. Carefully contextualised historically, Clark's persuasive study shows that any attempt to examine what it meant to be American in the New Nation, and immediately beyond, must be situated within the context of the Anglo-American relationship.
A Pretty Story
Author: Francis HopkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allegory
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The Library of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Edwin WolfPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871692573
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Beginning in the 1950s, Edwin Wolf 2nd embarked on a biblio'l. quest to reconstruct the library of Benjamin Franklin, which was the largest & best private library in Amer. at the time of his death & was subsequently dispersed. The contents of Franklin's library were virtually unknown until Wolf identified the unique shelfmarks that Franklin used to organize his books. That discovery allowed Wolf to locate 2,700 titles in 1,000 vols. that Franklin actually owned. Wolf also identified a further 700 titles owned by Franklin. After wolf's death, Kevin Hayes took up the project & brought it to fruition. This catalogue includes almost 4,000 books known to have been owned by Franklin, & the Intro. tells the complete story of Franklin's library, its dispersal, & its reconstruction.
The Imprint Catalog in the Rare Book Division
Author: New York Public Library. Rare Book DivisionPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Catalogue of the Very Important Collection of Rare Americana and Fine Engravings Formed by the Late Edwin Babcock Holden
Author: Edwin Babcock HoldenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
A Pretty Story, Written in the Year of Our Lord 2774
Author: Peter GrevousThe National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: National Index of American Imprints Through 1800
Author: Clifford Kenyon ShiptonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
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