{"product_id":"correspondence-and-american-literature-1770-1865-9780521842556","title":"Correspondence and American Literature, 1770-1865","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Elizabeth Hewitt\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Hewitt argues that many canonical American authors, including Jefferson, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, turned to letter-writing as an idealized genre through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. Hewitt maintains that, although correspondence is generally only conceived as a biographical archive, it must instead be understood as a significant genre through which these early authors made sense of social and political relations in the new nation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46895917269143,"sku":"9780521842556","price":12575.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780521842556.webp?v=1770356147","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/correspondence-and-american-literature-1770-1865-9780521842556","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}