Review
Reprinting the Literature of the Middle Ground
Early American Literature, Vol.43(2), pp.487-496
03/22/2008
DOI: 10.1353/eal.0.0010
Abstract
Scholars and students now have access to many new editions of primary texts that illustrate the role of print culture in the "republic of letters," the importance of manuscript coteries to the development of civil society, the transatlantic, transnational, and hemispheric nature of literary and cultural formation in the American colonies, and the inflections of gender and race in the production and reception of literary works.1 The middle ground, however, has appeared somewhat resistant to this reprinting impulse. In these reprinted editions of the memoirs of two important players in the American middle ground of the eighteenth century, the twenty-first-century reader finds new motivations and new orientations for cultural production in that mysterious "nonstate world" that go beyond the usual, often utilitarian views of what transpired there: military actions, land deals, political diplomacy.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Reprinting the Literature of the Middle Ground
- Creators
- Phillip Round
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publication Details
- Early American Literature, Vol.43(2), pp.487-496
- DOI
- 10.1353/eal.0.0010
- ISSN
- 0012-8163
- eISSN
- 1534-147X
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press; Chapel Hill
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/22/2008
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9984398737702771
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