Making American Tradition : Visions and Revisions from Ben Franklin to Alice Walker

Strout, Cushing (editor)

ISBN 10: 0813515173 / ISBN 13: 9780813515175

Published by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick and London, 1990

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Softcover book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making American Tradition : Visions and Revisions from Ben Franklin to Alice Walker
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick and London
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813515173
• ISBN 13: 9780813515175
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Softcover Wraps
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Literature Studies

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Synopsis

Using a comparative method that is sensitive both to the form of texts and their historical, biographical contexts, Cushing Strout shows how an American tradition has developed through the responses of writers to the work of their native predecessors. 

About the Author

Cushing Strout was an American intellectual historian. He was Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University.