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Literary history of the United States. / Editors: Robert E. Spiller [and others].
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Bibliography.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition, revised.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Macmillan, [1974]
- Contents:
- [1] History.
- [2] Bibliography.
- v. 1: I. The colonies. The European background
- Colonial literary culture
- Reports and chronicles
- Writers of the south
- Writers of New England
- Jonathan Edwards
- Writers of the middle colonies
- Benjamin Franklin
- II. The republic. Revolution and reaction
- The making of the man of letters
- The war of the pamphlets
- Philosopher-statesmen of the republic
- Poets and essayists
- The beginnings of fiction and drama
- The American dream
- III. The democracy. The great experiment
- Art in the market place
- Washington Irving
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Diversity and innovation in the middle states
- In New England
- In the south
- Edgar Allen Poe
- IV. Literary fulfillment. Democratic Vistas
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Herman Melville
- Walt Whitman
- V. Crisis. A house divided and rejoined
- The people's patronage
- The historians
- The orators
- Literature and conflict
- The New England triumvirate: Longfellow, Holmes, Lowell
- Minority report: The tradition of the old south
- Heard from the new world
- VI. Expansion. The widening of the horizons
- Literary culture on the frontier
- The American language
- The mingling of tongues
- The Indian heritage
- Folklore
- Humor
- Western chroniclers and literary pioneers
- The west as seen from the east
- Abraham Lincoln: the soil and the seed
- VII. The sections. The second discovery of America
- The education of everyman
- Defenders of ideality
- Pilgrims' return
- Delineation of life and character
- Western record and romance
- Realism defined: William Dean Howells
- Experiments in poetry: Emily Dickinson and Sidney Lanier
- Mark Twain
- VII. The continental nation. A world to win or lose
- Literature as business
- The literature of ideas
- Fiction and social debate
- The emergence of the modern drama
- Toward naturalism in fiction
- Henry James
- The discovery of Bohemia
- Henry Adams
- IX. The United States. The hope of reform
- Creating an audience
- The battle of the books
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- The "new" poetry
- Theodore Dreiser
- Fiction sums up a century
- Eugene O'Neill
- X.A world literature. Between wars
- How writers lived
- Speculative thinkers
- A cycle of fiction
- An American drama
- Poetry
- Summary in criticism
- American books abroad
- End of an era
- XI. Mid-century and after. The new consciousness
- Drama
- Fiction.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, pages 1480-1520).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy imperfect: v.2 only.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Literary history of the United States.
- ISBN:
- 0026131609
- 9780026131605
- OCLC:
- 1037571
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