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The flowering of New England, 1815-1865 / by Van Wyck Brooks.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks UNEng 810.903 B873f 1936
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963.
- Series:
- Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963. Makers and finders: a history of the writer in America, 1800-1915 ; 2.
- Makers and finders: a history of the writer in America, 1800-1915 ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882--Criticism and interpretation.
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882--Criticism and interpretation.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Criticism and interpretation.
- Thoreau, Henry David.
- Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891--Criticism and interpretation.
- Lowell, James Russell.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894--Criticism and interpretation.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell.
- Irving, Washington, 1783-1859--Criticism and interpretation.
- Irving, Washington.
- American literature--New England--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts--New England.
- Authors, American.
- New England--Intellectual life--19th century.
- New England.
- New England--In literature.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
- Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
- Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891.
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
- Authors, American--Homes and haunts.
- Intellectual life.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 550 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : E.P. Dutton, 1936.
- Contents:
- The Boston of Gilbert Stuart
- Harvard College in 1815
- The Coast and the Hinterland
- George Ticknor's Wanderjahre
- The New Age in Boston and Cambridge
- The North American Review: Sparks, Bancroft
- Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella
- Longfellow in Cambridge
- The Younger Generation of 1840
- Emerson in Concord
- Hawthorne in Salem
- Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Brook Farm
- Emerson: Wood-Notes
- Concord: 1840-1844
- Thoreau
- Cambridge: Longfellow, Dana the Younger, Lowell
- The Boston Historians: Motley
- Dr. Holmes
- Thoreau at Walden
- West of Boston
- The Anti-Slavery Writers
- New England at Large
- Concord in the Fifties
- Cambridge in the Fifties
- The Romantic Exiles
- The Autocrat
- The Saturday Club: Lowell's Essays
- Conclusion
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- "This is the first of a number of volumes in which I hope to sketch the literary history of the United States ... My subject is the New England mind as it has found expression in the lives and works of writers."--Preface.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- National Book Award for Nonfiction, 1936
- Pulitzer Prize for History, 1937
- Other Format:
- Online version: Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963. Flowering of New England, 1815-1865.
- OCLC:
- 786953
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