Atlantic history and interdisciplinary approaches.(Essay)

From: Early American Literature | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Eric Slauter has taken an inventive approach to two difficult and important questions: how do historians and literary scholars make sense of each other's work, and how can we spark more satisfactory conversations among ourselves? I am grateful to him for the thoughtful analysis he has supplied and for encouraging me to consider what interdisciplinary work may contribute to the study of the Atlantic world.

Carrying on a long tradition of early American scholarship, Slauter has constructed a declension thesis, one in which a field formally reliant on literary approaches has ...

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