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| Genre/Form: | Bibliography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Taylor, Walter Fuller, 1900- History of American letters. Boston, Atlanta [etc.] American Book Co. [c1936] (OCoLC)571554209 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter Fuller Taylor; Harry Hartwick |
| OCLC Number: | 697883 |
| Description: | xv, 678 p. 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The seventeenth century: echoes of the renaissance and reformation. Travel literature in early Virginia -- The Puritans: the immigrant generation -- The Puritans: The decline of theocracy. The eighteenth century: the shaping of the national ideals. Pictures of eighteenth-century America -- Religious America: Edwards and Woolman -- Secular and liberal America: Benjamin Franklin -- Political literature: Dickinson, Paine, and the authors of the Federalist -- Toward belle-lettres in America: Philip Freneau -- Foundations of a profession of letters. The nineteenth century: Romantic art in an agrarian republic. The romantic impulse and the American environment -- The middle states: romanticism and the profession of letters : Washington Irving ; James Fenimore Cooper ; William Cullen Bryant ; Edgar Allan Poe ; Herman Melville -- The New England renaisssance: romanticism and the Puritan legacy : Social and intellectual forces ; Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Henry David Thoreau ; Nathaniel Hawthorne ; John Greenleaf Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe ; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; James Russell Lowell ; Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The old South: romanticism, the planter aristocracy, and the back country : Toward modern America: Walt Whitman. The nineteenth century (1870-1900): Toward realistic art in an urban industrialism : The changing age and the realistic impulse -- The fiction of regionalism: Regionalism and the journalized short story ; "Mark Twain" (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) -- From regionalism to criticism in poetry -- Emerging types of realism : Fiction as fine art: Henry James ; Comedy, ethics, and economics: William Dean Howells ; Humanitarian protest: Hamlin Garland -- Heralds of the modern temper. The naturalistic revolt: Crane, Norris, and London ; The loss of certainty: Henry Adams. The twentieth century: Realism and romanticism in the age of multiplicity. The twentieth-century background -- Central currents in poetry and fiction : Edwin Arlington Robinson ; Robert Frost ; Edith Wharton ; Willa Sibert Cather -- Revolt and experiment : The maturity of naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Sherwood Anderson ; Naturalism and the cultural battle: H. L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis ; The "new poetry": the Imagists ; The "new poetry" and the American scene ; The rise of the drama: Eugene O'Neill -- The romantic escape : James Branch Cabell ; Joseph Hergesheimer ; Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Divergent trends : The survival of classicism ; Naturalism and the torches of violence. |
| Series Title: | American literature series |
| Responsibility: | by Walter Fuller Taylor ... With bibliographies by Harry Hartwick. |
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