Cover; Contents; Introduction. Style and the Cisatlantic; Chapter 1. To Form a More Perfect Language: Noah Webster's American-Style English; Chapter 2. Transatlantic Correspondences: Crèvecoeur and the Incorrect Style; Chapter 3. "New Forms of Sublimity": Charles Brockden Brown and the Irregular Style; Chapter 4. "Homespun Habits": Seduction, Sentiment, and the Artless Style; Coda. Stock and Soil; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments
Summary
Literature, American Style finds early U.S. authors self-consciously imitating European literary forms even as they claimed radical originality. The notion of style helped them manage this peculiar contradiction. It was their American use of style, they claimed, that marked their departure from literary precedents
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 7, 2018)
