MARKET 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Huntly, James Fenimore Cooper
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Chapter three literature of the early republic: hector st. john de cr vecoeur. Letters from an american farmer: he writes about america and compares it with europe. No industrialization, no monarchy, no gap because the poor and the rich. He sees the missing industrilization as an advantage: thomas paine (1737-1809) Democrativ propaganda, he uses john locks work on individual freedom, as a model of. American dictionary of the english language (1784) and dissertation on the english. Language (1789) he said that american english an british english are two complete different lanuages, which is why he published his dictionary of american english: benjamin franklin (1706-1790) He was one o the founding fathers of the new republic. He only received two years of formal school education. After that he becomes part of the printing press and later also is kind of in charge of what is written and printed in the newspapers.
