American pantheon; [essays]

A collection of essays that form a chronological survey of the significant and lesser-known figures of the 19th century American literature.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arvin, Newton, 1900-1963
Other Authors: Aaron, Daniel, 1912-2016 (Editor), Schendler, Sylvan (Editor)
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: New York, Delacorte Press [1966]
Edition:[1st ed.].
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Daniel Aaron
  • A memoir / Louis Kronenberger
  • Chivers : A Georgian minstrel
  • Sigourney : Hartford's sweetest singer
  • Emerson : Brooks's life of Emerson, The house of pain : Emerson and the tragic sense
  • Thoreau : Thoreau v. Thoreau
  • Whitman : Whitman's individualism
  • Alcott : The tedious archangle
  • Whittier : Quaker somewhat militant
  • Hawthorne : The relevance of Hawthorne, New pigment for an old canvas, Hawthorne's journals, Hawthorne's tales, The unfinished window
  • Melville : Melville and the gothic novel
  • Beecher : With the Rockies for sounding board
  • Howells : The usableness of Howells
  • Mark Twain : Mark Twain simplified, The friend of Caesar
  • Cable : The grandissimes
  • James : Henry James and the almighty dollar, Notes for a review
  • Dickinson / Emily Dickinson
  • Sill : The failure of E.R. Sill
  • Adams : A warning; Not an example, Letters of Henry Adams
  • Riley : The placid interval
  • Garland : Re-travelled roads
  • Miscellaneous : counterfeit presentments
  • Rourke : Thalia Americana.