Our literary heritage; a pictorial history of the writer in America / by Van Wyck Brooks and Otto L. Bettmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963.

Contributor:

Bettmann, Otto.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Authors, American--Biography.

Authors, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 241 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., [1956]

Contents:

Book One. The World of Washington Irving

Book Two. The Flowering of New England

Book Three. The Times of Melville and Whitman

Book Four. New England: Indian Summer

Book Five. The Confident Years.

Notes:

"This book is based on the five volumes of my Makers and finders: a history of the writer in America, 1800-1915 ... My literary historical series was the work of twenty years ... Meanwhile Dr. Otto Bettmann suggested that he would like to make an abridgment of my series with illustrations ... Dr. Bettemann has recast my work in quite a new form, cutting the narrative down to less than one-sixth of the original text while largely retaining its continuity and flow."

Includes index.

Local Notes:

RBC copy imperfect: several pages mutilated.

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok Los Angeles".

Potok Collection copy is "Second Printing, November 1956".

OCLC:

269165