Intro to Revolutionary Literature
By: Amelia Gunzelman, Yuwen Liao, Lucas Winn
American Revolutionary Literature.
Writing didn't pay well for early American writers, who had no audience to write to. Most American writers had to pay printing presses to print their work. From printers not printing American authors work, they started to pirate and print English classics. Pirating damaged foreign authors thus creating a copyright law, but only protected American authors not English authors who had to watch out for themselves. Piracy did still go on which declined American literature, but by 1825 American literature began to make an appearance.
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