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"Based on the five volumes of ... [the author's] Makers and finders: a history of the writer in America, 1800-1915." pt.1. The world of Washington Irving: Philadelphia in 1800 -- The land of Yankees -- The Dutch along the Hudson -- Washington Irving -- Irving and Scott -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Later Knickerbockers -- The West -- Frontier life contributes to national literature -- The South -- Edgar Allan Poe -- William Cullen Bryant -- Painters and writers -- pt.2. The flowering of New England: Boston and Cambridge -- New England minds lead the nation -- Widening horizons -- New England historians fulfill vital function -- The hour had struck for poets -- Young Boston goes to sea -- Transcendentalism explores the inner life -- The sage of Concord -- Henry Thoreau -- Intellectual whirlpools -- Brook Farm -- The Alcott family -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The anti-slavery writers -- Whittier, poet-laureate of New England -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- James Russell Lowell -- Literary Boston -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The Saturday club -- pt.3. The times of Melville and Whitman: New York in the fifties -- Tales of the travellers -- Herman Melville -- Melville's Moby Dick -- Melville and Whit

Author

Van Wyck Brooks and Otto L. Bettmann

Publisher

New York: Dutton

Published

1956

Language

EN

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Biography