American literature to 1900
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American literature to 1900
（The Penguin history of literature, v. 8）
Penguin, 1993
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Originally published: [London] : Sphere Books, 1973
Bibliography: p. [353]-386
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume takes as a pragmatic starting-point the writings of the first European explorers in America such as Richard Hakluyt, and the first colonial settlers, such as Anne Bradstreet. By the mid-19th century, the evolution of publishing and communications, and the advent of "Atlantic Monthly" and "Harper's" had coincided with a flowering of talent - Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman - together with a host of minor figures. The essays in this volume explore three fertile centuries of writers and writing that drew on the Old World and the New, in shaping a distinctive native literature. "The Penguin History of Literature" is a critical survey of English and American literature in ten volumes. Each volume is a collection of original essays specially commissioned for the series, which, taken together, cover 14 centuries of literature from the Anglo-Saxons to the present.
Table of Contents
- The conditions of an American literature, Marcus Cunliffe
- literary culture in colonial America, Larzer Ziff
- the god that neglected to come - American literature 1780-1820, Martin Green
- James Fenimore Cooper - cultural prophet and literary pathfinder, Kay S. House
- Edgar Allan Poe, Ian M. Walker
- New England transcendentalism, George Hochfield
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Agostino Lombardo
- Herman Melville, Martin Green and Bernard McCabe
- Walt Whitman, Denis Donoghue
- New England - the universal yankee nation, Marcus Cunliffe
- Henry James - the prey of all the patriotisms, Howell Daniels
- Mark Twain's gods and tormentors - the treasure, the river, the nigger and the twin brother, Bernard Poli
- "Years of the Modern" - "The rise of realism and naturalism", Malcolm Bradbury.
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