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The first century of American literature, 1770-1870.

By: Publication details: New York, Cooper Square Publishers, 1966 [©1935]Description: viii, 613 pages 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 081540171X
  • 9780815401711
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 810.9
LOC classification:
  • PS88 .P35 1966
Other classification:
  • HT 1510
Contents:
The closing eighteenth century. Preliminary ; The revolution ; Philip Freneau ; The Yale poets ; The fin de siècle ; The fight for the novel ; Charles Brockden Brown ; "The Boston style" ; Travelers and émigrés ; The emerging West ; The opening century ; Rise of the reviews ; The periodical essay ; The beginnings of native humor ; New York ; The literary South -- The rise of romanticism. Introductory ; "Who reads an American book?" ; Romanticism ; Bryant ; Cooper ; The discovery of the Indian ; The consumptive poets ; The annuals and gift-books ; Three decades of the short story ; Sydney Smith answered ; The feudal South -- The mid-century renaissance. The mid-century renaissance ; Emerson ; Seba Smith and the new humor ; The "magazinists" ; Longfellow ; Hawthorne ; Whittier ; The feminine fifties ; The Atlantic Monthly ; The century from the perspective of today.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The closing eighteenth century. Preliminary ; The revolution ; Philip Freneau ; The Yale poets ; The fin de siècle ; The fight for the novel ; Charles Brockden Brown ; "The Boston style" ; Travelers and émigrés ; The emerging West ; The opening century ; Rise of the reviews ; The periodical essay ; The beginnings of native humor ; New York ; The literary South -- The rise of romanticism. Introductory ; "Who reads an American book?" ; Romanticism ; Bryant ; Cooper ; The discovery of the Indian ; The consumptive poets ; The annuals and gift-books ; Three decades of the short story ; Sydney Smith answered ; The feudal South -- The mid-century renaissance. The mid-century renaissance ; Emerson ; Seba Smith and the new humor ; The "magazinists" ; Longfellow ; Hawthorne ; Whittier ; The feminine fifties ; The Atlantic Monthly ; The century from the perspective of today.

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