| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
400 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The New history of literature |
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New history of literature.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [353]-386. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
1. The conditions of American literature / Marcus Cunliffe -- 2. Literary culture in Colonial America / Larzer Ziff -- 3. The god that neglected to come : American literature 1780-1820 / Martin Green -- 4. James Fenimore Cooper : cultural prophet and literary pathfinder / Kay S. House -- 5. Edgar Allan Poe / Ian M. Walker -- 6. New England transcendentalism / George Hochfield -- 7. Nathaniel Hawthorne / Agostino Lombardo -- 8. Merman Melville / Martin Green and Bernard McCabe -- 9. Walt Whitman / Denis Donoghue -- 10. New England : the universal Yankee nation / Marcus Cunliffe -- 11. Henry James : the prey of all the patriotisms / Howell Daniels -- 12. Mark Twain's gods and tormentors : the treasure, the river, the nigger and the twin brother / Bernard Poli -- 13. 'Years of the modern' : the rise of realism and naturalism / Malcolm Bradbury. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Cunliffe, Marcus, 1922-1990.
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| ISBN |
0872261328 |
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9780872261327 |
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