Lanterna Rally

Author: Elizabeth Christine Cook

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-03

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780265205242

Excerpt from Literary Influences in Colonial Newspapers: 1704-1750 Literature in the American colonies in the earlier half of the eighteenth century was produced chiefly' by ecclesiastics and by extremely practical men of 1 affairs. The New England divines were volumi nous writers. Any catalogue or bibliography of ante-revolutionary publications shows a large pro portion of sermons and theological treatises. Wherever such works have possessed literary or historical value, they have been fully analyzed by the literary historian. On the other hand, men of aflairs like Benjamin Franklin and Colonel Wil liam Byrd, whose writings represent the overflow from varied activities, have also been studied. And these two classes of men produced all the well known literature of the period. Men of letters did not exist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.