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After the Revolution : profiles of early American culture

Author: Joseph J Ellis
Publisher: New York : Norton, ©1979.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Biography
Biographies
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joseph J Ellis
ISBN: 0393012530 9780393012538 0393952002 9780393952001
OCLC Number: 5171264
Description: xvi, 256 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Part one : Premonitions and paradoxes in the Revolutionary era --
Premonitions : an American Athens --
Paradoxes : culture and capitalism --
Part two : Profiles --
Charles Willson Peale : portrait of the American artist as virtuous entrepreneur --
Hugh Henry Brackenridge : the novelist as reluctant democrat --
William Dunlap : the dramatist as benevolent patriarch --
Noah Webster : the Connecticut Yankee as nationalist --
New critics : toward Emerson.
Responsibility: Joseph J. Ellis.

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