The frontier in American literature.
Series: American classicsPublication details: New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co. [1961]Description: 308 pages 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Herrick, Robert, 1868-1938
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
- Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940
- Harte, Bret, 1836-1902
- Herrick, Robert, 1868-1938
- Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
- Norris, Frank, 1870-1902
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
- Littérature américaine -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature américaine -- ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
- American literature
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Geschichte
- Literatur
- Vie des pionniers dans la littérature
- United States
- Frontier
- USA
- 810.9093
- PS169.F7 H3 1961
- HR 1703
- Also issued online.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Puritan frontier -- Chronicles of old New England ; Motives of the Puritan migration ; Character of the Puritan emigrants ; Puritan en voyage ; Finding of the frontier ; Puritan community : attitude toward the Indians ; Theocracy ; Intolerance ; Superstition ; Introspection ; Repressions ; Dissensions ; Individualism ; Distinguishing features of the New England frontier ; Hawthorne : the reluctant Puritan : the timid pioneer -- II. Southern frontier : a study in Romanticism -- Plantation and frontier ; Captain John Smith : Elizabethan imperialist ; Colonel William Byrd of Westover in Virginia, esquire ; Congressman Davy Crockett : the backwoods politician ; Southern frontier in American literature ; Cult of the colonel ; Fad of the primitive ; Escape to Poictesme -- III. Hunter and trapper : heroes of the fur trade -- New types of frontiersmen ; James Fenimore Cooper ; Washington Irving ; John G. Neihardt ; Fate of frontier characters -- IV. Golden age of transcendentalism -- Influence of the frontier on transcendentalism ; Frontier elements in transcendentalism ; Transcendental idealization of frontier traits ; Transcendental recognition of regional pioneering ; Transcendentalists as spiritual pioneers ; Thoreau, the intensive pioneer ; Walt Whitman : the afterglow of the golden age -- V. Frontier of '49 -- Literary frontiers ; Historical fidelity of Western literature ; Bret Harte, melodramatist ; Heart of the West ; Mark Twain : Wild West humorist of the Pacific slope ; Psychic West ; Frontier and local color -- VI. Gilded age of industrial pioneering -- Exploitation of natural resources : the masters of capital ; Andrew Carnegie : triumphant democracy ; Mark Twain : son and satirist of the gilded age ; Robert Herrick : the story of a self-made senator ; Theodore Dreiser : Cowperwood, the creature of chemistry -- VII. Frontier and the nester -- Frontier and farm ; Farm in American literature ; Hector St. John Crevecoeur ; Hamlin Garland ; Frank Norris ; Willa Cather -- VIII. Coming age of spiritual pioneering.
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