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
literature express the collective genius of the American people.
Without literary precedent to aid them, Elliott argues, these
writers attempted to convey a vision of what America ought to be;
and when the moral imperatives implicit in their writings were
rejected by the vast number of their countrymen they became
pioneers of another sort--the first to experience the alienation
from mainstream American culture that would become the fate of
nearly all serious writers who would follow.
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