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The rise of realism; American literature from 1860 to 1900.
LIBRA - Special PS504 .A62 vol. 3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wann, Louis, 1885- editor.
- Series:
- American literature: a period anthology ; v. 3.
- American literature: a period anthology ; [v.3]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century.
- American literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 874 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Macmillan, 1949.
- Contents:
- Walt Whitman
- Civil conflict and reconstruction. Abraham Lincoln ; Jefferson Davis ; Henry Timrod ; Henry W. Grady
- Sidney Lanier
- The persistence of tradition. Bayard Taylor ; Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Folk literature. The cowboy ; The bad man ; The homesteader ; The lumberjack ; The mountaineer ; The railroad man ; The slums ; The Negro
- Frontier humor. Tall tales ; John Phoenix (George Horatio Derby) ; Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) ; Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) ; Petroleum v. Nasby (David Ross Locke) ; Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson Nye)
- The development of local color. Bret Harte ; Joaquin Miller (Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) ; Edward Eggleston ; John Hay ; Irwin Russell ; George Washington Cable ; Lafcadio Hearn ; Joel Chandler Harris ; Sarah Orne Jewett
- The advance of science. John Fiske ; John Muir ; Clarence King
- Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
- William Dean Howells
- Henry James, Jr.
- Emily Dickinson. The world about us ; Life and love ; Death and eternity ; Letters
- Countercurrent : romance. Bliss Carman ; Richard Hovey
- Utopia and social reform. Henry George ; Edward Bellamy ; William Graham Sumner ; William Jennings Bryan ; Edwin Markham ; William Allen White
- The triumph of realism and naturalism. Edgar Watson Howe ; Hamlin Garland ; Frederick Jackson Turner ; Ambrose Bierce ; Harold Frederic ; Stephen Crane ; Frank Norris.
- Notes:
- Biographical sketches and bibliographies included in "Notes" (pages 817-868).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has some underlining and annotations in pencil.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wann, Louis, b. 1885. Rise of realism.
- OCLC:
- 332688
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