| Description |
xvi, 500 pages ; 18 cm. |
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Documents in American civilization series
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Documents in American civilization series.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 499-500. |
| Contents |
Part I: Aftermath of Independence, 1783-1815 -- 1. "Advice to Authors. By the late Mr.Robert Slender" / Philip Freneau -- 2. Prefaces and Prologues (a) Introduction to The Vision of Columbus / Joe Barlow -- (b) introduction to Greenfield Hill / Timothy Dwight -- (c) Preface to The Algerine Captive / Royall Tyler -- (d) "To the Public," from Edgar Huntly / Charles Brockden Brown -- "Advertisement" and "Prologue" to The Contrast / Royall Tyler -- (f) Preface and "Prologue" to Andre / William Dunlap -- (g) Preface to The American Review and Literary Journal for the Year 1801 / Charles Brockden Brown -- 3. from A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century / Samuel Miller -- 4. Introduction to Dissertation I: On the English Language / Noah Webster -- 5. Essay on "American Literatur" / Fisher Ames -- 6. Essay "On American Literature" / George Tucker -- Part II: The Challence of Nationalism, 1815-1820 -- 7. "Essay on American Language and Literature and "Reflections on the Literary Delinquency of America" / Walter Channing -- 8. Phi Beta Kappa Address on the Materials of American Poetry / William Tudor -- 9. Essay "On Models in Literature" / Edward tyrell Channing -- 10. Phi Beta Kappa Address on some obstacles to Literary nationalism / Francis Calley Gray -- 11. "Memoir on the Present State of the English Language in the United States of America" / John Pickering -- 12. Preface to, and Essay from, An Essay on American Poetry / Solyman Brown -- 13. "Essay on American Poetry," a review of Solyman Brown's Essay / William Cullen Bryant -- 14. Review of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent / Richard Henry Dana,Sr. -- Part III: The National Mind in Wrting, 1820-1830 -- 15. A Discourse Concerning the Influence of America on the Mind / Charles Jared Ingersoll -- 16. Phi Beta Kappa oration on "the peculiar motives to intellectual exertion in America" / Edward Everett -- 17. Essay on "American Drama" / Robert Walsh -- 18. Preface to An American Dictionary of the English Language / Noah Webster -- 19. "Remarks on National Literature," a review of Ingersoll's Dicourse / William Ellery Channing -- Part IV: The American Man of Letters, 1819-1837 -- 20. "The Author's Account of Himself" from The Sketch Book / Washington Irving -- 21. "National Literature,' from Salmagundi, Second Series / James Kirke Paulding -- 22. Bowdoin oration on "Our Native Writers" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- 23. Essays on the Literary situdation, from Notions of the Americans, Letters #23 and #24 / James Fenimore Cooper -- 24. Essay on patriotism and the Poetic sentiment, a review of the poems of Drake and Halleck / Edgar Allan Poe -- 25. Phi Beta Kappa address on "The American Scholar" / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Part V: Circumstantial Evidence -- 26. The United States Copyright Act of 1790 -- 27. Book-order Lists from the Archives of The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1790 and 1800 -- 28. Periodical Lists of New Publications -- (a) from the Monthly Anthology, January 1810 -- (b) from the North American Review, January 1820 -- (c) from the North American review, January 1830 -- 29. English theories of taste and Imagination -- (a) "Standard of Taste," from Elements of Criticism / Henry Home, Lord Kames -- (b) "On the Nature of the Emotions of Sublimity and Beauty", from The Nature and Principles of Taste / Archibald Alison -- (c) "Fancy and Imagination," from Biographia literaria / Samuel taylor Coleridge |
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American prose literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783.
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