Ideas in America / Howard Mumford Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Howard Mumford, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

United States--Intellectual life.

Local Subjects:

American literature--History and criticism.

United States--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

2nd printing 1945. Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Ideas in America".

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

PART I THE NEED FOR LITERARY HISTORY

I AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

2. DESIDERATA IN COLONIAL LITERARY HISTORY

3 AMERICAN LITERATURE AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR CULTURAL ANALYSIS

PART II STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF IDEAS IN AMERICA

4 ORIGINS OF THE COLONIAL IDEA

5 AMERICAN PROSE STYLE: 1700-1770

6 THE DRIFT TO LIBERALISM IN THE AMERICAN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

7 THE INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN IDEAS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA

8 THE RENAISSANCE AND AMERICAN ORIGINS

PART III THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE

9 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR ONCE MORE

10 NOBILITY WANTED

11 AMERICAN LITERATURE AND THE MELTING POT

12 NEW ENGLAND DILEMMA

13 TRIBALISM

NOTES

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-674-49937-9

OCLC:

1013957104