Autor: Emory Elliott

You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", but that ain’t no matter. So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest Amer …

Elliott demonstrates how America’s first men of letters–Timothy Dwight, Joel Barlow, Philip Freneau, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and Charles Brockden Brown–sought to make individual genius in literatu …

Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age examines a variety of significant multidisciplinary and multicultural topics within the subject of aesthetics. Addressing the vexed relation of the arts and criticis …

One of the earliest American novels, Wieland (1798) is a thrilling tale of suspense and intrigue set in rural Pennyslvania in the 1760s. Based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered his …

For years, scholars have attempted to understand the powerful hold that the sermon had upon the imagination of New England Puritans. In this book Emory Elliott puts forth a complex and striking thesi …