The cycle of American literature : an essay in historical criticism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spiller, Robert Ernest, 1896-1988
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Macmillan, [c1955].
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1.] The first frontier: Architects of culture: Edwards, Franklin, Jefferson
  • The man of letters: Irving, Bryant, Cooper
  • The affirmation: Emerson, Thoreau
  • The artist in America: Poe, Hawthorne
  • Romantic crisis: Melville, Whitman
  • End of an era
  • [2.] The second frontier: Literary rediscovery: Howells, Mark Twain
  • Art and the inner life: Dickinson, James
  • A problem in dynamics: Adams, Norris, Robinson
  • Second renaissance: Dreiser, Frost
  • Full circle: O'Neill, Hemingway
  • The uses of memory: Eliot, Faulkner.