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.
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York,
Delacorte Press
[1966]
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| Edition: | [1st ed.]. |
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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.