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The literature of the American people : an historical and critical survey
Title
The literature of the American people : an historical and critical survey / Arthur Hobson Quinn, editor.
Publication
New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1951]
Copyright Notice Date
©1951
Physical Description
xix, 1172 pages ; 25 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Tanselle Z78 0145: Autograph: Harry Hayden Clark. Manuscript writing (below autograph) [Clark]: Presented by American Literature for review. Manuscript notes and annotations.
Other formats
Online version: Literature of the American people. New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1951]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 985-1107).
Contents
pt. 1. The colonial and revolutionary period: 1. The background of colonial literature
2. Early travellers and observers
3. Puritan preachers and prose writers
4. Poets and poetasters
5. Colonial historians
6. Aspects of eighteenth-century colonial culture
7. Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin
8. Woolman, Crevecoeur, and the romantic vision of America
9. The literature of the revolutionary controversy
10. The expanding literary horizon
pt. 2. The establishment of national literature: 11. Politics and poetry
12. Early fiction and drama
13. National and universal themes
14. The romance of history and the frontier
15. The frontiers of life and death
16. Idealistic revolt and reform
17. Intuition and independence
18. Beauty and the supernatural
19. The romance of the moral life
20. Widening horizons in poetry
21. The height of the provincial
22. The rationalist in literature
23. Patrician democracy
24. The foundations of American criticism
25. Literature, politics, and slavery
26. Revolt and celebration in the drama
27. The literary historians
28. Literature and the allied arts
pt. 3. The later nineteenth century: 29. The age of the monthly magazine
30. Democracy in free verse
31. New wine in old bottles
32. Exploitation of the provinces
33. Realism for the middle class
34. Escape from the commonplace
35. Mirth for the million
36. New voices in verse
37. The facts of life versus pleasant reading
38. The challenge of social problems and of science
39. Amusements on the stage
pt. 4. The twentieth century: 40. Lingering urbanity
41. The conscience of liberalism
42. Spokesmen of the plain people
43. Respectability defied
44. Impressionists and experimenters
45. Analysts of decay
46. Loopholes of retreat
47. In the American grain
48. The resurgent South
49. Vitalizers of the drama
50. Cross-currents in American thought
51. Proletarian leanings
52. New movements in poetry
53. Twentieth-century forms and pressures.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Literature.
Annotations - 20th century.
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Appleton-Century-Crofts, inc., publisher.
United States New York (State) New York.
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