Five Young Writers on the Early American Authors They Most Admire

The classic works from the early years of the country still provide the creative spark that inspires those who carry the ...
University of Delaware

Martin Brückner

Martin Brückner, who currently serves as the Director of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (WPAMC), specializes in early American literature, material culture, and historical ...
insider.si.edu

Democracy, revolution, and monarchism in early American literature / Paul Downes

Monarchophobia: reading the mock executions of 1776 -- Crèvecoeur's revolutionary loyalism -- Citizen subjects: the memoirs of Stephen Burroughs and Benjamin Franklin -- An epistemology of the ballot ...
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Charles Brockden Brown Wrote Poetry, and You Should Actually Read It

This essay addresses the surprising fact that Charles Brockden Brown wrote poetry, and it considers some of the difficulties readers may encounter with his poems, as a way to encourage EAL's ...