| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 408 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Prologue, 1918: Old man in a dry mouth -- pt. 1. The self as power: America when young, 1830-1865: The priest departs, the divine literature comes: Emerson -- Things are in the saddle and ride mankind: Emerson -- The lover and his guilty land: Thoreau -- The ghost sense: Hawthorne and Poe -- A more perfect union: Whitman to Lincoln -- pt. 2. Modern times, 1865-1900: "Melville is dwelling somewhere in New York" -- Wrecked, solitary, here: Dickinson's's Room of her own -- Creatures of circumstance: Mark Twain -- The James country -- Chicago and "the East": Dreiser, Adams, Mark Twain -- The youth: Stephen Crane -- pt. 3. Ruling by style: history and the moderns, 1900-1929: A postponed power: Henry Adams -- Going to Europe: Eliot and Pound -- An American tragedy and The sound and the fury -- Hemingway the painter -- Retrospect, 1932: The twenties and the great American thing. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0394503783 |
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9681627172 |
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