In Defense of Historical Literature: Essays on American History, Autobiography, Drama, and Fiction |
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Page 23
... reader who is willing to understand and discuss the rhetoric in which history is written . Especially in this day of intellectual history and mythography , one must pay close attention to tone , to implications , and to metaphorical ...
... reader who is willing to understand and discuss the rhetoric in which history is written . Especially in this day of intellectual history and mythography , one must pay close attention to tone , to implications , and to metaphorical ...
Page 24
... reader of Adams's History of the United States must also face them . Indeed , any statement about the Puritans , or the American character , or twentieth - century historians needs to be read ( as , we may hope , it was written ) with a ...
... reader of Adams's History of the United States must also face them . Indeed , any statement about the Puritans , or the American character , or twentieth - century historians needs to be read ( as , we may hope , it was written ) with a ...
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... reader into this neutral territory , but the conven- tionally dim , ghostly atmosphere has especial value in The Scarlet Letter . Along with the contrast provided by the weak Custom- House officials , it magnifies Hawthorne's ...
... reader into this neutral territory , but the conven- tionally dim , ghostly atmosphere has especial value in The Scarlet Letter . Along with the contrast provided by the weak Custom- House officials , it magnifies Hawthorne's ...
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