An American procession / Alfred Kazin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 408 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Harvard University Press paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.

Summary:

In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning when Ralph Waldo Emerson left the church and inspired a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending with the triumph of modernism - Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, Fitzgerald - and with the revelation after World War I of the "postponed power" of those who had been modern before their time: Henry Adams, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0674031431

9780674031432

OCLC:

38557158