| Edition |
Rev. ed. |
| Description |
xx, 775 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
The physical background -- The racial background -- The intellectual background -- The beginnings of the American mind -- The flowering of the colonial mind -- Revolution and reaction -- American romanticism -- The romantic movement in Virginia -- The west -- Charleston and Southern culture -- Philadelpia -- New York, the cosmopolitan city -- The New England Renaissance -- Walt Whitman -- The industrialization of the United States -- Three critics of the Gilded age -- The twilight of romanticism -- Western Humor -- Lost in the Gilded age -- Rise of realism -- Naturalism -- Romance and sociology -- The new poetry -- The battle of the village -- The new romance -- The drama in America -- The present confusion |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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United States -- Civilization.
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United States. |
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Civilization. |
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United States -- Intellectual life.
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Intellectual life. |
| ISBN |
0815404328 |
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