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xi, 393 pages ; 21 cm |
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Perspectives on American literature. |
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Perspectives on American literature.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-382). |
| Contents |
Perspectives. American novelists and American society / Michael Millgate -- The literature of revolt / Henry Steele Commager -- For radicals / Randolph S. Bourne -- Writers on the left / Daniel Aaron -- The tradition of American revolutionary literature / Joseph Freeman -- On the new left / C. Wright Mills -- Love, law and civil disobedience / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The students take over / Kenneth Rexroth -- The Diogenes style / Kingsley Widmer -- Beatniks and tradition / John P. Sisk -- The concept of black power / Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton. |
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The subversive tradition. The speech of Polly Baker / Benjamin Franklin -- A plain way of living / John Woolman -- The maypole of Merry Mount / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ode inscribed to W.H. Channing / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from Song of myself / Walt Whitman -- Sister Carrie : the pursuit of dreams / Theodore Dreiser -- The war prayer / Mark Twain -- The red Swede / Sinclair Lewis -- In the treadmill / John Dos Passos -- Duty / H.L. Mencken -- The iconoclast / H.L. Mencken -- Over the threshold / Sherwood Anderson -- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin -- America / Allen Ginsberg. |
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Radicals and reformers. A little rebellion : letters to James Madison / Thomas Jefferson -- Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau -- The martyrdom of John Brown / Henry David Thoreau -- Return to chaos / Edward Bellamy -- A night with the Philomaths / Jack London -- Lover of mankind / John Dos Passos -- Joe Hill / John Dos Passos -- The workers take over / Albert Halper -- Sacco and Vanzetti / Upton Sinclair -- from Bohemia to Russia / Joseph Freeman -- A truce in the battle / John Steinbeck. |
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A majority of one. The transcendentalist / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Where I lived, and what I lived for / Henry David Thoreau -- from Moby-Dick / Herman Melville -- Three poems / Emily Dickinson -- Echoes of a suicide / Malcolm Cowley -- Epidaurus / Henry Miller -- The patron saint of MacDougal Alley / Norman Mailer -- Dean Moriarty / Jack Kerouac -- The screamers / Leroi Jones. |
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American literature.
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Dissenters -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- Themes, motives.
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Dissenters in literature.
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Dissenters in literature. (OCoLC)fst00895411
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American literature -- Themes, motives.
(OCoLC)fst00807260
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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Dissenters. (OCoLC)fst00895401
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst01921716
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Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Woodward, Robert Hanson, 1925-1985, editor.
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Clark, James Jefferson, compiler.
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