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American literature and the dream

Author: Frederic Ives Carpenter
Publisher: Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1968, ©1955]
Series: Essay index reprint series.
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Carpenter, Frederic Ives, 1903-1991.
American literature and the dream.
Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1968, c1955]
(OCoLC)590568437
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Frederic Ives Carpenter
OCLC Number: 269235
Description: vi, 220 p. 24 cm.
Contents: pt. 1. Introduction --
The American dream --
pt. 2. The transcendental dream --
Emerson --
Bronson Alcott: genteel transcendentalist --
Walt Whitman's Eidolon --
pt. 3. The genteel tradition: a re-interpretation --
Scarlet A minus --
Melville and the men-of-war --
pt. 4. The pragmatic realization --
C.S. Peirce: pragmatic transcendentalist --
William James and Emerson --
Sinclair Lewis and the fortress of reality --
pt. 5. The romantic confusion: the devil in America --
The romantic tragedy of Eugene O'Neill --
Death comes for Robinson Jeffers --
pt. 6. Thomas Wolfe: the autobiography of an idea --
John Steinbeck: the philosophical Joads --
The time of William Saroyan's life --
Hemingway achieves the fifth dimension --
pt. 7. The good and the bad --
The logic of American literature.
Series Title: Essay index reprint series.
Responsibility: [by] Frederic I. Carpenter.

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