id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_zc7xskryg5hd7n56dmocourkim Lindsay Dicuirci Literature, American Style: The Originality of Imitation in the Early Republic by Ezra Tawil (review) 2021.0 7 .pdf application/pdf 3299 170 47 Literature, American Style: The Originality of Imitation in the Early Republic (Penn Press, 2019) In Literature, American Style, Tawil's subject matter is, itself, a crucial intervention in Tawil's work responds to recent calls in the field to attend to literary aesthetics. issue of Early American Literature on the topic, to which Tawil contributed, the editors begin linguistic and literary styles of several canonical works of the early national period, but also in paradoxical notion of American style as an "original imitation," Tawil poses more compelling writers made claims to American literary distinction within the obvious context of cultural In chapter three, Tawil expands the link between the American landscape and literary Tawil's turn toward the "plain style" and sentimental literature in chapter four is a While Tawil's book deeply contextualizes the rhetorical uses of claiming an American the intricacies of transatlantic exchange, literary style, and cultural nationalism that critics have ./cache/work_zc7xskryg5hd7n56dmocourkim.pdf ./txt/work_zc7xskryg5hd7n56dmocourkim.txt