| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxx, 251 pages 22 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
"A Seymour Lawrence book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Daniel Aaron -- A memoir / Louis Kronenberger -- Chivers : A Georgian minstrel -- Sigourney : Hartford's sweetest singer -- Emerson : Brooks's life of Emerson, The house of pain : Emerson and the tragic sense -- Thoreau : Thoreau v. Thoreau -- Whitman : Whitman's individualism -- Alcott : The tedious archangle -- Whittier : Quaker somewhat militant -- Hawthorne : The relevance of Hawthorne, New pigment for an old canvas, Hawthorne's journals, Hawthorne's tales, The unfinished window -- Melville : Melville and the gothic novel -- Beecher : With the Rockies for sounding board -- Howells : The usableness of Howells -- Mark Twain : Mark Twain simplified, The friend of Caesar -- Cable : The grandissimes -- James : Henry James and the almighty dollar, Notes for a review -- Dickinson / Emily Dickinson -- Sill : The failure of E.R. Sill -- Adams : A warning; Not an example, Letters of Henry Adams -- Riley : The placid interval -- Garland : Re-travelled roads -- Miscellaneous : counterfeit presentments -- Rourke : Thalia Americana. |
| Summary |
A collection of essays that form a chronological survey of the significant and lesser-known figures of the 19th century American literature. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Aaron, Daniel, 1912-2016 editor.
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Schendler, Sylvan editor.
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