| Description |
xii, 339 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (facsimiles) plates, portraits ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Between Two Wars -- El Dorado -- The Veda Crop Failure -- Melville and Whitman -- The Second Flowering of New England -- The Shadow of Dickens -- English Genius Discovers the Yankee Dollar -- Females Militant -- "A D-D Mob of Scribbling Women" -- The Novel That Precipitated A War -- Dementia Gothamiana -- Hiawatha -- The Gunmaker of Moscow -- Native Humor Becomes Respectable -- A Woman Sees the Joke -- A Cable Line Across the Styx -- "Japonica-dom" -- The Furbelowed Fifties -- The Mand Who Hated Boston -- In Minor Key -- Boston Builds A Magazine -- The Impending Crisis |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Women authors, American.
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Women authors, American. |
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