Laws & Letters in American Culture.
Ferguson, Robert A. Laws & Letters in American Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. 417 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in near fine dust jacket with sunned spine. Internally clean and bright. $50. * Legal history examining the profound intersection of jurisprudence and literature in the early American republic from the Revolutionary era through the Civil War. Ferguson details how the legal profession served as the primary custodian of American cultural and literary life during the nation's formative decades, exploring how early writers were systematically trained in the law. Here the author comprehensively analyzes the works and legal careers of prominent figure-writers, including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, and James Fenimore Cooper, demonstrating how their structural understandings of constitutional theory, natural law, and statutory governance directly shaped the themes, values, and narrative architecture of early national American literature.
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