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308 pages ; 21 cm. |
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American classics
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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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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.
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